Steven Elliott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm interested in how builtins could be more efficient. I've read over > some of the PEPs having to do with making global variables more > efficient (search for "global"): > http://www.python.org/doc/essays/pepparade.html > But I think the problem can be simplified by focusing strictly on > builtins.
Whether or not it is a good idea, it is not wholly uncommon for users to manipulate variables in the builtin or other module namespaces. From very simple import hooks replacing __import__, to module.QUIT = 1, these things happen, and I don't think that making them produce a warning as suggested by Paul, necessarily helps us. I personally think the problem can be simplified (and solved) by applying decorators where such builtin lookups could/should be more efficient. Raymond has a recipe for doing such optimization over at the Python cookbook: http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/277940 Toss that little guy into a decorators module; if people want their runtime calling to be fast (at the expense of a slightly increased compilation time), they'll start using it. - Josiah _______________________________________________ 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