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[Python-Dev] frozen exceptions.py

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On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> > > Why C? Implement it in Python and freeze the sucker.
> > 
> > size and performance.  exception classes are installed
> > during initialization of the python interpreter, and they
> > all need to be made available for C code anyway.
> > 
> > (in fact, the new code isn't that much larger than the
> > code needed to copy stuff from exceptions.py)
> 
> Actually, in this case, I'd vote for C too.  My reason is stability.
> The process to freeze exceptions.py into the core will always be more
> fragile than the process to compile C code.

Heretic! :-)

All right... I guess that I'm just gonna have to see if I can disprove
your assertion :-)

Cheers,
-g

-- 
Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/

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