Dino Viehland, 05.11.2009 19:35: > Stefan wrote: >> It /does/ make some static assumptions in that it considers builtins >> true >> builtins. However, it does not prevent you from replacing them in your >> code, as long as you do it inside the module. Certainly a restriction >> compared to Python, where you can import a module into a changed dict >> environment that redefines 'object', but not a major restriction IMO, >> and certainly not one that impacts much code. > > To me this is a deal breaker which prevents Cython from being a Python > implementation. From a talk given by Colin Winter at the LLVM dev meeting > (http://llvm.org/devmtg/2009-10/) it seems like Unladen Swallow wanted to > do something like this as well and Guido said no. In this case the breaking > change is so subtle that I'd personally hate to run into something like > this porting code to Cython and having to figure out why it's not working.
I assume that this is artificially exaggerated to make a point, as this behaviour is obviously not a technical requirement but an optimisation, which could potentially be disabled. Stefan _______________________________________________ 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
