On 11/7/07, Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> wrote:
> On 11/7/07, Christian Heimes <report@bugs.python.org> wrote:
> >
> > Christian Heimes added the comment:
> >
> > By the way what happened to the SoC project related to Python's new IO
> > subsystem? IIRC somebody was working on a C optimization of the io lib.
> >
>
> I think it was Alexandre Vassalotti. Is that right, Alexandre? Or am I
> mixing you up? (If you ca, please respond to the bug.)

I think so. My GSoC project was to merge the interface of
cPickle/pickle and cStringIO/StringIO. I am still working on it,
albeit slowly (my school homework is killing all my free time, right
now). My work on StringIO and BytesIO is basically done; I just need
to add newline translation and encoding support before it can be
merged into the trunk. The cPickle/pickle merge is mostly done (i.e.,
all the current tests passes); I am right now in the bug-hunting
phase.