Marc-Andre Lemburg <m...@egenix.com> added the comment: Alexander Belopolsky wrote: > > Alexander Belopolsky <belopol...@users.sourceforge.net> added the comment: > > As far as I remember, the datetime module started as a pure python module and > was reimplemented in C around year 2003 or so. One of the important > additions at that time was the C API to datetime functionality. I am afraid > that with the _timemodule.c/timemodule.py split there will be more an more > functionality that is awkward to access from C API.
That's correct, though the main reason for rewriting the module in C was to gain performance - this is essential for basic types like date/time types. -1 on undoing the C rewrite. It would be much better to spell out the problems you mention and provide patches to implement solutions for them. ---------- nosy: +lemburg _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue7989> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
