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Message: [QUOTE="Mark Wooding, post: 3777888"] I could do. But in practice internal details often aren't horrifically unstable. If I fork the library, I've now got to mess with distributing the forked version, and keeping the patch up to date -- the codebase is likely to be much more volatile than the internals I'm hacking on. It's just not such a good tradeoff. See elsewhere where I described hacking Python's `long' representation. You'd have me fork the Python interpreter. That doesn't seem like a win to me. We call them `disassemblers' and `debuggers'. Sometimes even simple experimentation is sufficient. I try not to. Sometimes I fail. -- [mdw] [/QUOTE]