On Tue, 07 Jun 2011 01:03:55 -0300, Gabriel Genellina wrote: > En Sat, 28 May 2011 14:05:16 -0300, Steven D'Aprano > <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> escribió: > >> On Sat, 28 May 2011 09:39:08 -0700, John Nagle wrote: >> >>> Python allows patching code while the code is executing. >> >> Can you give an example of what you mean by this? [...] > I think John Nagle was thinking about rebinding names: > > > def f(self, a, b): > while b>0: > b = g(b) > c = a + b > d = self.h(c*3) > return "hello world"*d > > both g and self.h may change its meaning from one iteration to the next, > so a complete name lookup is required at each iteration. This is very > useful sometimes, but affects performance a lot.
Ah, that was what I was missing. Thanks Gabriel. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
