En Thu, 14 Feb 2008 15:22:41 -0200, Jeff Schwab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > Christian Heimes wrote:
>> No, print invokes the tp_print slot of the float type. Some core types >> have a special handler for print. The tp_print slot is not available >> from Python code and most people don't know about it. :] > > Why does print use the tp_print slot, rather than str()? Are the two > effectively redundant? If (non-repr) string representations are > frequently needed for a given type, could str() be implemented as a > reference to tp_slot, via a C-language extension? As a side note, the print statement has FIVE related opcodes. Looks like printing has been considered a very important operation... -- Gabriel Genellina -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
