Kay Schluehr wrote: > What happens when an enthusiast re-implements a stdlib module e.g. > decimal s.t. it becomes a builtin module? Will the stdlib module serve > as a wrapper to conform the current API or will the builtin module > conform to the current interface.
Well, the best example is probably the transition from sets.Set to __builtin__.set. The API changed but only slightly. So far sets.Set retains the old implementation--it is not a wrapper for __builtin__.set. Future modules may be implemented differently. -- Michael Hoffman -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
