Georg Brandl wrote: > For the speed argument -- there were quite a few proposals to take builtins as > constants under certain conditions, in which case getattr() usage could be > optimized just as well as new syntax.
Even more aggressively, the compiler could recognise it and make a direct call to the __getattr__ method, or maybe even have a new opcode for doing that. In other words, "special syntax" doesn't necessarily have to look like special syntax. :-) -- Greg _______________________________________________ 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
