[Python-Dev] Re: Prospective Peephole Transformation

[Aahz]

On Sat, Feb 19, 2005, "Martin v. L?wis" wrote:
> Fredrik Lundh wrote:
>>
>>I'd say that this explains why it would still make sense to let the code 
>>generator change
>>"x in (a, b, c)" to "x == a or x == b or x == c", as long as a, b, and c 
>>are all integers.
> 
> How often does that happen in real code?

Dunno how often, but I was working on some code at my company yesterday
that did that -- we use a lot of ints to indicate options.
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