[Python-Dev] PEP 471 (scandir): Poll to choose the implementation (full C or C+Python)

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Fri, 13 Feb 2015 08:35:00 -0500
Ben Hoyt <benhoyt at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> If we go ahead with the all C approach, I'd be in favour of
> refactoring a little and putting the new scandir code into a separate
> C file. There are two ways to do this: a) sticking with a single
> Python module and just referencing the non-static functions in
> scandir.c from posixmodule.c, or b) sharing some functions but making
> _scandir.c its own importable module. Option (a) is somewhat simpler
> as there's not module setup stuff twice, but I don't know if there's a
> precedent for that way of doing things.

The _io module already does things that way (the (a) option, I mean).

Regards

Antoine.