Alexander Belopolsky <belopol...@users.sourceforge.net> added the comment:
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 6:13 PM, Martin v. Löwis <rep...@bugs.python.org> wrote: .. >> I support this idea in theory, but as long as decimal is implemented >> in Python, os module should probably expose a low level (tuple-based?) >> interface and a higher level module would provide Decimal-based >> high-precision time. > > Can you explain why you think so? I fail to see the connection. One reason is the desire to avoid loading Python module from a C-module. I understand that this ship has already left the port with larger and larger portions of stdlib being implemented in Python, but doing that in a basic module such as os (or rather posix) is likely to cause more problems than what we have in other similar situation. For example, strptime is implemented in a Python module loaded by time and datetime implemented in C. This works, but at a cost of extreme trickery in the test suit and similar problems encountered by sophisticated applications. As far as I remember, some multi-threding issues have never been resolved. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue11457> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
