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.
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