[Python-3000] A better way to initialize PyTypeObject

[Guido van Rossum]

My preference is for a table-based version over a "lots-of-calls"
approach. I think the idea of using predefined (integer) constants
instead of string constants fits fine into the table-based approach.
However I'm not sure that a string-based approach is necessarily bad
-- we use that now for everything that's not a special method after
all. I do get the point that the string-based approach uses more
memory and needs more processing time.

On 12/2/06, Fredrik Lundh <fredrik at pythonware.com> wrote:
> Talin wrote:
>
> > So I don't think it's the case that nobody's even bothered to look at
> > Larry's patch
>
> so are you basing your patch on his work?
>
>  > People have looked at the patch and suggested taking a different
>  > approach.
>
> really?  I haven't seen much of a consensus for the string-literals
> instead of constants approach, especially not from experienced extension
> writers.  personally, I think it's butt-ugly, a lot more error-prone
> than any alternative, and I also doubt that it'll save much space in
> practice.  it also ignores history; the Xt developers tried the same
> thing, and ended up adding #define's for all their string literals to
> get a least a little help from the compiler...
>
> </F>
>
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