On Jun 17, 10:29 am, "Gabriel Genellina" <gagsl-...@yahoo.com.ar> wrote: > En Thu, 17 Jun 2010 04:52:48 -0300, Alf P. Steinbach <al...@start.no> > escribió: > > > But who would have thunk that Python *isn't dynamic enough*? :-) > > Yep... There are other examples too (e.g. the print statement in 2.x > bypasses sys.stdout.write;
What do you mean by this? The print statement in 2.x does *not* bypass sys.stdout. It may use other methods besides write (writeln perhaps) but you can *definitely* override sys.stdout to capture the output from print statements. Michael Foord > see also a recent thread "Which objects are > expanded by double-star ** operator?") > > Most of them seem to be speed optimizations, some might be considered > subtle bugs. But in this case (global variable references) speed is so > critical than even the dict lookup is inlined; the code in ceval.c says: > > /* Inline the PyDict_GetItem() calls. > WARNING: this is an extreme speed hack. > Do not try this at home. */ > > Python is dynamic but not so much as to make it crawl like a snail... > > -- > Gabriel Genellina -- http://www.voidspace.org.uk/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list