Cool. How hard do you think it would be to extend your work on
StringIO into a translation of TextIOWrapper into C?

On Nov 7, 2007 3:55 PM, Alexandre Vassalotti <alexandre@peadrop.com> wrote:
> 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.
>