[issue33682] Optimize the bytecode for float(0) ?

[STINNER Victor]

STINNER Victor <vstinner at redhat.com> added the comment:

float and int names can be replaced in the current namespace, so you cannot implement such optimization :-(

http://fatoptimizer.readthedocs.io/en/latest/optimizations.html#call-pure
http://fatoptimizer.readthedocs.io/en/latest/semantics.html#builtin-functions-replaced-in-the-middle-of-a-function

Example in the REPL:

>>> float=bool
>>> float(0)
False

>>> int=len
>>> int("hello world!")
12

I suggest to close this issue as NOTABUG. You need to implement guards at runtime to implement such optimizations without breaking the Python semantics. It is exactly what I implemented in my FAT Python project:
https://faster-cpython.readthedocs.io/fat_python.html

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