Nick> Have you looked at what the methods we're proposing to turn into Nick> properties are actually doing?:
Nick> def getName(self): Nick> assert self.__initialized, "Thread.__init__() not called" Nick> return self.__name ... Nick> Checking whether or not an Event is set is hardly an expensive Nick> operation... Precisely my point. The fact that the body of the method does almost nothing means that the cost of method lookup and function call will likely be much greater than the actual work being done. Skip _______________________________________________ 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