On Fri, 16 Apr 2021, 3:14 pm Larry Hastings, <la...@hastings.org> wrote:

>
> Anyway I assume it wasn't "fixable".  The compiler would presumably
> already prefer to generate LOAD_GLOBAL vs LOAD_NAME, because LOAD_GLOBAL
> would be cheaper every time for a global or builtin.  The fact that it
> already doesn't do so implies that it can't.
>

Metaclass __prepare__ methods can inject names into the class namespace
that the compiler doesn't know about, so yeah, it unfortunately has to be
conservative and use LOAD_NAME in class level code.

Cheers,
Nick.

>
>
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