No swap function in Python?

[Thomas Wouters]

On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 10:13:21AM +0200, Bolton, Gawain [ADC:4808:EXCH] wrote:

> pretend humans understand words more readily than symbolic notation - a swap
> function could generate the optimized code without any need for peephole
> optimization.

Except that a function call is *way* more expensive than tuple
packing/unpacking, even if only because a function call consists of a tuple
pack/unpack, among several other things.

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Thomas Wouters <thomas at xs4all.net>

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