[Python-Dev] an unimportant question, ...

[Christian Tismer]

On 3/22/09 8:01 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote:
>> Now, the internals are very clear to me. What I don't understand
>> is where the three saved bytes should be.
>
> If you look at the various patches in
>
> http://bugs.python.org/issue576101
>
> then there is a three-byte saving in all versions from 1 to 6.
> Consequentially, the API was changed in those versions (but only
> starting from version 5, i.e. the first version created by Guido).
>
> For some reason, the saving was then removed from the patch that
> got actually committed (#7). I guess the comment just stayed.

That's very impressive!
Thank you very much for the enlightment.
Whow!

cheers - chris
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