> File operations and network operations are fundamental to the interpreter, > so dedicating opcodes to them makes sense. The I/O system's also fully > async (where possible, and looking async where it isn't) so we need some > good hooks into the interpreter for that anyway.
That may be Perl's philosophy. In Python, file and network ops are purely a library issue. Hooks for async stuff are something different; Python currently doesn't have them but I expecte this would be useful. --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
