Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan <at> gmail.com> writes: > > If partial starts messing about looking for missing arguments and then > slotting them in, then it is likely to slow down to the point where you > would be better off skipping it and writing a dedicated function that > adds the extra arguments.
Looking for missing arguments is very cheap, just raw pointer compares (Ellipsis is a singleton). In comparison, the cost of executing a dedicated Python function would be overwhelming. _______________________________________________ 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
