[Python-Dev] Fast access to builtins (original) (raw)

Jack Diederich jack@performancedrivers.com
Thu, 27 Mar 2003 17:15:05 -0500

On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 04:37:59PM -0500, Raymond Hettinger wrote:

>From past rumblings, I gather that Python is moving towards preventing builtins from being shadowed.

I would like to know what you guys think about going ahead with that idea whenever the -O optimization flag is set.

The behavior of a program under -O should be as similar as possible to normal operation. This would break that for some programs. A per-file pragma directive would work. The downside of a pragma module or keyword would be what people try to add to it later.

-jackdied