On Sun, 6 Feb 2005 10:49:05 -0600, Skip Montanaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Wouldn't it be better to have the peephole optimizer recognize the throwaway > nature of lists in these contexts: > > for elt in [1, 2, 4, 8, 16]: > ... > > if foo in [list, tuple]: > ... > > (anywhere a list of constants immediately follows the "in" or "not in" > keywords) and convert them into constants? The cases you converted all > matched that usage.
I think I implemented this once. I'll try to see if I can find a patch. It wasn't too difficult, but I'm not sure if the patch was clean. Neal _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
