[Python-Dev] Re: User extendable literal modifiers ?! (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Tue, 01 Oct 2002 10:22:39 +1200 (NZST)

Fredrik Lundh <fredrik@pythonware.com>:

isn't the whole idea that with a special syntax, you can do some of the processing when compiling the script?

I suppose the literal object could be precomputed when compiling -- but how would you marshal it when saving the bytecode?

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