[Python-Dev] C extension import time

[Stefan Krah]

Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
> Just create a _pydecimal module (like _pyio).

That's very fast indeed. There's one minor problem: For backwards compatibility
and pickling [1] I'd need to add

    __module__ = 'decimal'

to every class of the Python version. Are there any reasons not to do that?



Stefan Krah


[1] _decimal has always set the module name to 'decimal' because of that.