Python IS slow ! [was] Re: Python too slow for real world

[Randall Hopper]

Christian Tismer:
 |Terry Reedy wrote:
 |> A batch-mode optimizer analyzing an entire file (module) should be able to
 |> detect whether or not function names are rebound.
 |> 
 |> Perhaps module bindings should be considered immutable from outside the
 |> module unless explicitly declared otherwise. 
 |
 |I'm thinking of no new keyword, but a mechanism which allows me to lock a
 |namespace somehow. 

I like this idea in concept.  Though I would prefer a way to have
namespaces "lock by default".  Examples:  After a class definition, the
class function dictionary is locked.  After a module is fully read, all
references are bound and the module namespace is locked.  etc.

Randall