[Python-Dev] Revive the types sig?

[Neil Schemenauer]

On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 06:52:57PM -0500, Barry A. Warsaw wrote:
> I thought PTL definitely included a "template" declaration keyword, a
> la, def, so they must have some solution here.  MEMs guys?

The correct term is "hack".  We do a re.sub on the text of the
module.  I considered building a new parsermodule with def
changed to template but haven't had time yet.  I think the
dominate cost when importing a PTL module is due stat() calls
driven by hairy Python code.

  Neil