Marc-Andre Lemburg <m...@egenix.com> added the comment:

STINNER Victor wrote:
> 
> STINNER Victor <victor.stin...@haypocalc.com> added the comment:
> 
> I like the idea of a pure Python implementation of the datetime module, for 
> different reasons:
>  - it will become the reference implementation
>  - other Python interpreters can use it
>  - it can be used to test another implementation, eg. the current C version
>  - implement/test a new feature is much faster in Python than in C
> 
> About the last point: I already used _pyio many times to fix a bug or to 
> develop a new feature. _pyio helps to choice the right solution because you 
> can easily write a short patch and so compare different solutions.

Ah, so that where the Python io module hides. Thanks for the pointer.

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