[Python-Dev] Accessing globals without dict lookup (original) (raw)

Fred L. Drake, Jr. fdrake@acm.org
Fri, 8 Feb 2002 16:17:28 -0500

Guido van Rossum writes:

I'm guessing both. ;-) ... Wrong. keys() does need special treatment. If c.objptr is NULL, the cell exists, but keys() should not return the corresponding key. This is so that len(x.keys()) == len(x.values()), amongst other reasons!

Ow! Bad Fred! I should know better than to speak up on a Friday!

-Fred

-- Fred L. Drake, Jr. PythonLabs at Zope Corporation