On Thu Oct 30 23:42:21 CET 2014, Steven D'Aprano wrote:

How does this compare to the "Alternate Implementation" described in PEP 412?

http://python.org/dev/peps/pep-0412/#id17

I feel pretty dumb--I didn't read the alternative implementation section. It would be identical. Thanks for catching that. I'm going to try implementing it to see how it pans out.