In that one, G. van Rossum drops in to make a suggestion in the comments ... Both posts are worth the time. P.S. some people do not realize that a sizeable pa

In that one, G. van Rossum drops in to make a suggestion in the comments ... Both posts are worth the time. P.S. some people do not realize that a sizeable part of the core Python developers were/are C++ coders who wanted some sanity (or so I gathered about 8 years ago, when facing the same problem ;-).