[Python-Dev] other "magic strings" issues
"Martin v. Löwis"
martin at v.loewis.de
Sat Nov 8 19:28:53 EST 2003
Alex Martelli wrote:
> [[ I meant -- but didn't say out loud!-) -- "without changing the current
> bytecode-level logic". The change I proposed and experimented with
> for strings' is... methods is localized to stringobject.c and requires
> changing nothing except the details of string objects' implementation ]]
Then I probably don't understand what you are suggesting. What would
LOAD_ATTR do if the object is a string, the attribute is "isdigit", and
you were allowed to assume that the result won't depend on factors that
may change over time?
Regards,
Martin
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