[Tutor] R: Re: Re: Re: Class learning

[Mark Lawrence]

On 24/01/2015 01:50, Cameron Simpson wrote:
>
> My intuition is that a function is costly (potentially) and that
> consulting an attribute is very cheap.  I don't want to break such
> intuition.
>

It's not just your intuition, it's a fact.  Function calls are costly, 
relative to attribute lookup that is, at least in cPython.  I've no idea 
what the impact is in other implementations.  I'd guess that 99% of the 
time 99% of Python programmers needn't worry about it.

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Mark Lawrence