[Python-Dev] Release of astoptimizer 0.3

[Maciej Fijalkowski]

On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 12:41 PM, Victor Stinner
<victor.stinner at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Here are some progress on my astoptimizer project. If you are interested by
> the optimizer, run it on your own project or help me to implement more
> optimizations.
>
> http://pypi.python.org/pypi/astoptimizer
> https://bitbucket.org/haypo/astoptimizer
>
> ---
>
> The last version (0.3) works on Python 2.6-3.3 and implements the
> following optimizations:
>
> * Call builtin functions if arguments are constants. Examples:
>
>   - len("abc") => 3
>   - ord("A") => 65

Does it preserve python semantics? What if you change the len builtin?