On 11/7/07, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> Cool. How hard do you think it would be to extend your work on
> StringIO into a translation of TextIOWrapper into C?

Well, StringIO and TextIOWrapper are quite different. The only part
that I could reuse, from StringIO, would be the newline translation
facilities. I think that a perfect translation to C of the current
Python implementation of TextIOWrapper will be burdensome (due to
things like function annotations) but not too hard to do.

Nevertheless, that would be neat project for me. I could start to work
it by mid-December, along with the other performance enhancements I
have in mind.