Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> added the comment: My guess would be that they're intended as a micro-optimisation (instance lookups should be faster than class attribute lookups). You do lose on the memory front though, since they make the instances bigger.
Without a micro benchmark of any kind, I'm not inclined to mess with them at this point. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue14814> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
