[Python-3000] How to override io.BytesIO and io.StringIO with their optimized C version?

[Matt Nordhoff]

Brett Cannon wrote:
> On Dec 27, 2007 11:06 PM, Matt Nordhoff <mnordhoff at mattnordhoff.com> wrote:
>> Brett Cannon wrote:
>>> On Dec 26, 2007 2:40 PM, Christian Heimes <lists at cheimes.de> wrote:
>>>> Alexandre Vassalotti wrote:
>>>>> Well, I been working on branches since the beginning. Although, I now
>>>>> use Mercurial (which is lovely IMHO) to keep my changes (url:
>>>>> http://peadrop.com/alex-py3k/).
>>>> Someday I need to play with Hg. It looks interesting and I've heard only
>>>> good about it.
>>>>
>>> It is nice.  Once Mercurial hits version 1.0 I am going to look at
>>> whether it is reasonable to move Python to hg or bzr to make it easier
>>> for people to do development on their own machines with local checkins
>>> instead of forcing people who can't create a branch to create their
>>> own VCS solution when doing offline work.
> 
> Just so people know, I won't start this for months, so we don't need
> to keep discussing this and making noise on python-dev about it.
> 
>> Why wait until 1.0? Hg is mature and used by a number of major projects.
>>
> 
> Yes, I know it is mature and used by many people, but for something as
> critical as our VCS, I want the developers to be so much behind it
> they are willing to call it version 1.0.

Ok. I guess that's reasonable, but I think hg is close enough.

>> BTW, there's a copy of Python's trunk converted to bzr on Launchpad:
>> <https://code.launchpad.net/~vcs-imports/python/trunk>
>> (that's the web page, not the branch itself)
>>
>> I don't know of any conversions to hg. I half want to do it myself, but
>> I'm afraid to try to download so much from svn.python.org. :-P
> 
> Well, I won't stop you.  We get so much download traffic I doubt
> downloading the entire history by one person will be a big deal.

Heh, ok.

I just tried it, and it seems I don't have the svn Python bindings set
up properly. Never mind, I guess, at least for now.

> -Brett
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