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MyASPN >> Mail Archive >> python-dev
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[Python-Dev] Porting C extensions
by Antoine Pitrou other posts by this author
Nov 3 2009 1:58PM messages near this date
Re: [Python-Dev] No buildbot to test wide unicode? | [Python-Dev] PEP 3003 - Python Language Moratorium
Brett Cannon <brett <at>  python.org> writes:
>  
>  I'm afraid there is some FUD going around here, which is
>  understandable since no one wants to burn a ton of time on something
>  that will be difficult or take a lot of time. But I have not heard
>  anyone in this email thread (or anywhere for that matter) say that
>  they tried a port in earnest and it turned out to be difficult.

One obvious example is the C extensions for the interpreter itself.
The code for those C extensions is actually almost the same from 2.x to 3.x. The
two main changes are the module initialization sequence (see PEP 3121) and the
bytes-> unicode change for special methods such as tp_repr.

Regards

Antoine.


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