[Python-Dev] Intricacies of calling eq (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Wed Mar 19 14:26:26 CET 2014

On Wed, 19 Mar 2014 15:21:16 +0200 Maciej Fijalkowski <fijall at gmail.com> wrote:

On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 3:17 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote: > On Wed, 19 Mar 2014 15:09:04 +0200 > Maciej Fijalkowski <fijall at gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I would like to point out that instructing people does not really >> work. Besides, other examples like this: >> >> if d[x] >= 3: >> d[x] += 1 don't really work. > > That's a good point. But then, perhaps PyPy should analyze the eq > method and decide whether it's likely to have side effects or not (the > answer can be hard-coded for built-in types such as str). > > Regards > > Antoine.

Ok. But then how is it valid to have "is" fast-path?

What do you mean?

Regards

Antoine.

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