[Python-ideas] Optimizing builtins

[Nick Coghlan]

On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 7:51 AM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
> and of course for more fun you can make it more dynamic (think
> obfuscated code contests).

Not to mention the champions of obfuscation for CPython: doing the
same things from an extension module, or by using ctypes to invoke the
C API (although such mechanisms are obviously outside the language
definition itself, they're still technically legal for non-portable
CPython code)

Cheers,
Nick.

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