[Python-3000] StringIO vs cStringIO, pickle vs cPickle

Wed Apr 5 06:05:28 CEST 2006

On 4/4/06, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
>> I'm in agreement with the sentiment of keeping the Python code though
> -- it's incredibly useful for example in Jython and IronPython.
> Perhaps we should switch to a naming scheme where we have a "pickle"
> module that you're supposed to import, which dynamically tries to
> import first "_pickle" and if that fails imports "_pypickle" (or some
> such naming scheme).

We could have a subdir, but I'm not sure I like that. We might wind
up with a lot of dirs on sys.path if we add a bunch of subdirs.
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