[Python-Dev] Slot for trunc (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Tue Jan 29 20:17:07 CET 2008


I don't see why. index has a slot because its primary use is to be called from C code, where slots add a slight performance advantage. trunc doesn't get called from C AFAIK.

On Jan 29, 2008 11:04 AM, Raymond Hettinger <python at rcn.com> wrote:

Should the implementation of trunc have its own slot like we have for nbindex?

Raymond

------------------------------------------------------- rhettinger at localhost ~/py26/Objects $ grep "trunc" *.c floatobject.c: {"trunc", (PyCFunction)floattrunc, METHNOARGS, intobject.c: {"trunc", (PyCFunction)intint, METHNOARGS, longobject.c: {"trunc", (PyCFunction)longlong, METHNOARGS,


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