[IronPython] sympy on IP 2.6B2

[Michael Foord]

Jeff Hardy wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 10:13 AM, Jeffrey
> Sax<jeffrey at extremeoptimization.com> wrote:
>   
>> Still, given the performance degradation, it seems odd you have to turn
>> frames on just to import a module regardless of whether you actually need
>> the frames functionality.
>>     
>
> For that reason, modules should have guards similar to
>
> if not hasattr(sys, '_getframe'):
>     ...
>
> around any code that uses frames, and disable that functionality if
> they're not available. Both Jython and IronPython have the same
> problem with frames causing a large performance hit, so it helps
> portability.
>
>   

Doesn't Jython have frames now?

Anyway - yes code *should* have hasattr guards, but unfortunately a lot 
of it doesn't, which sucks.

Michael

> - Jeff
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