text_combined: greg ewing lwbwyflqtcanterburyacnz nick coghlan wrote features find particularly unfortunate whichever ones making people think implementing c infeasible something isnt particularly amenable implementation c doesnt make bad api python library something like number type benefits greatly speed making actively chostile doesnt seem like good idea eg dicts enablesignal different error traps natural interface python code dont see cant object mapping interface stores internally bit field whatever convenient c code greg _______________________________________________ pythondev mailing list zvlllneumpythonorg httpmailpythonorgmailmanlistinfopythondev unsubscribe httpmailpythonorgmailmanoptionspythondevpythondev40tangomucom thu 07 aug 2008 143826 1200 pythondev decimalunicode