On 2/13/07, Greg Ewing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Brett Cannon wrote:
> > On 2/12/07, Collin Winter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > 2) {BinOp,AugAssign,BoolOp,etc}.op
> >
> > I can't think of a reason, off the top of my head, why they can't be
> > singletons.
>
> Why not just use interned strings?
>Because the AST code at the C level represent the 'op' value as basically an enumeration value, not a string. So creating an object is somewhat easier then trying to do the conversion to an interned string. Or at least I suspect; Martin can tell me I'm wrong if I am. -Brett _______________________________________________ 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
