[Python-Dev] adding a bytes sequence type to Python (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Thu Aug 12 22:56:07 CEST 2004


Wouldn't the compiler be able to tell it was to be treated specially if it saw b"GET"? In that case, the code generated for

x = b"GET" would be something like LOADCONST "GET" LOADNAME bytes CALLFUNCTION 1 STOREFAST x

This is actually an illustration of what I meant: a performance-aware person might want to move that CALL_FUNCTION out of an inner loop if they knew the result was never modified inside the loop.

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