On 12 Oct 2013 05:49, "Eric Snow" <ericsnowcurren...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 1:41 PM, Stefan Krah <ste...@bytereef.org> wrote: > > Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: > >> Just create a _pydecimal module (like _pyio). > > > > That's very fast indeed. There's one minor problem: For backwards compatibility > > and pickling [1] I'd need to add > > > > __module__ = 'decimal' > > > > to every class of the Python version. Are there any reasons not to do that? > > Try just putting "__name__ = 'decimal'" at the top of the source file.
In this case the fixup needs to be conditional on the absence of "_decimal". Aside from that, yes, lying about name is the easiest way to preserve pickle compatibility while still moving code around. Cheers, Nick. > > -eric > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/ncoghlan%40gmail.com
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