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

Skip Montanaro skip@pobox.com
Fri, 28 Mar 2003 07:30:08 -0600 

Barry> ... or  setting open() to some debugging func.

Barry> I wouldn't want to completely disallow these, but I'd be happy if
Barry> you had to do something special and/or (more) explicit to make
Barry> them work.

Like a compiler flag to disable the run-time optimization so your debugging open() would be seen everywhere?

Sort of like Guido's observation about fastbuiltins = True, the frequent case (regular, optimized version of open()) should be the default, while the exception requires programmer or user action.

Skip