2012/9/11 Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org>:
> FWIW, I expect that there are few places where len(<constant string>)
> is actually used.
I found one revelant example in the stdlib.
if path.endswith('.dylib'):
yield path[:-len('.dylib')] + suffix + '.dylib'
else:
yield path + suffix
Cool, I'm not the only developer too lazy to copy/paste len('suffix')
in a Python interpreter and then copy/paste the result in my code :-)
"if text.endswith('suffix'): ... text[:-len('suffix')] ..." is a
common pattern in my code.
> However I expect it to be quite common for ord(),
> where the same reasoning applies.
Projects using the same code base for Python 2 and Python 3 contain a
lot of inefficient code. For example, using the six library, a simple
Unicode literal strings becomes a function code: u('unicode').
I expect that astoptimizer will be able to remove (or at least
reduce!) the overhead of the six library and all checks on the Python
version ("if PYTHON3: ... else: ...").
Victor
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