22 Mar
2009
22 Mar
'09
3:01 p.m.
Now, the internals are very clear to me. What I don't understand is where the three saved bytes should be.
If you look at the various patches in http://bugs.python.org/issue576101 then there is a three-byte saving in all versions from 1 to 6. Consequentially, the API was changed in those versions (but only starting from version 5, i.e. the first version created by Guido). For some reason, the saving was then removed from the patch that got actually committed (#7). I guess the comment just stayed. Regards, Martin