I don't remember where, but I remember that I also saw things like "str=str, len=len, ...". So you keep the same name, but you use fast local lookups instead of slow builtin lookups. Victor 2013/10/2 Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net>:
On Wed, 2 Oct 2013 18:16:48 +0200 (CEST) serhiy.storchaka <python-checkins@python.org> wrote:
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/d48ac94e365f changeset: 85931:d48ac94e365f user: Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com> date: Wed Oct 02 19:15:54 2013 +0300 summary: Use cached builtins.
What's the point? I don't think it's a good idea to uglify the code if there isn't a clear benefit.
Regards
Antoine.
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