[Python-Dev] C extension import time

[Eric Snow]

On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 1:41 PM, Stefan Krah <stefan at bytereef.org> wrote:
> 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?

Try just putting "__name__ = 'decimal'" at the top of the source file.

-eric