Konstantin Veretennicov wrote: > On 6/21/05, Magnus Lycka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>I don't know anything about the Python compiler internals, >>but it doesn't seem very hard to identify simple literals following >>while and if, and to skip the runtime test. (Perhaps it's done >>already?) > > > True doesn't seem to be a literal, it is looked up by name and can be > rebound to, say, 0 anytime:
Right. Silly me. Maybe in some future Python version, True and False will be constants, like None is since Python 2.4. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
