"OT" == Oren Tirosh
writes:
OT> This thought experiment is part of a strange fantasy I have that OT> Python might one day use only interned strings to represent OT> names. There are relatively few places where a string may be OT> converted to a name (getattr, hasattr, etc) and these could be OT> interned at the interface if interned strings are not OT> immortal. I expect that nothing will ever come out of this, but OT> it's fun to think about it anyway... two responses: What do you mean by "represent names"? Code objects already use interned strings for names. Did you have something else in mind? You might have mentioned this thought experiment / strange fantasy at the outset of the thread <0.2 wink>. There was a lot of email thrashing on this subject, but none of it apeears to have been necessary. Jeremy