[Python-3000] A better way to initialize PyTypeObject

[Guido van Rossum]

On 11/28/06, Talin <talin at acm.org> wrote:
> Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> > Guido van Rossum wrote:
> >
> >> - Fredrik's solution makes one call per registered method. (I don't
> >> know if the patch he refers to follows that model.) That seems a fair
> >> amount of code for an average type -- I'm wondering if it's too early
> >> to worry about code bloat (I don't think the speed is going to
> >> matter).
> >
> > too early, I think.
>
> I agree with this,

Sure, forget I mentioned the efficiency thing.

> especially given that I think that this should be
> *immediately* backported to 2.6, so that developers can gradually
> transition over; So that by the time Py3K comes out, there will be fewer
> existing libraries to convert.

Not *immediately* -- only after a lot of people agree and a working
patch and conversion strategy has been defined.

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--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)