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[M.-A. Lemburg]

Terry Reedy wrote:
> M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> 
>> Integrating an easy-to-use graph library into the collections
>> module (and it's C companion) is good idea.
>>
>>>> This would have to be written in C, though,
>>> That's currently in the works, along with database backing.
>>> We'd welcome any help though... hint, hint...
> 
> The current thinking among deveopers is that new modules should be
> written and maintained in Python, which all implementations can use,
> with speed-critical parts written in C for speed and imported by the
> Python code.

I don't think you are speaking for Python developers in general.

The usual approach is to develop a prototype in Python and then
rewrite it in C. Since the prototype is already there, what
remains is the rewrite to get better performance.

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