[Python-Dev] Issue #11051: system calls per import

[Nick Coghlan]

On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 7:25 PM, Georg Brandl <georg at python.org> wrote:
>> And why it does test with and without "module".
>
> Because it always did (there's a thing called backwards compatibility.)
>
> This is of course probably the obvious one to start a deprecation process.

But why do we check the long suffix for the *new* extension module
naming variants from PEP 3149 and PEP 384? Those are completely new,
so there's no backwards compatibility argument there.

Cheers,
Nick.

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