> I haven't tried the patch, but from looking at it, I guess > it would be better to leave the old names (c_names and c_consts) > together with their previous semantics in place and > add new c_consts_dict and c_names_dict objects > to the end of the compiling structure. I concur. Charles, would you mind resubmitting? --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)