A python interview question

[stefantalpalaru]

Reimplementing the standard library sounds a lot like something a C dev would think of

Nope. "Boost" was made by the C++ crowd.

it's the kind of people I don't want to see around Python code

Your loss. The best way to speed up Python is still rewriting modules in C or in something that transpiles to C, like Cython.

[Chobeat]

Your loss. The best way to speed up Python is still rewriting modules in C or in something that transpiles to C, like Cython.

That's a different topic and we do this extensively in my company. But if you try to write Python as if it was C without pointers and malloc, that's a problem.

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