[Python-Dev] Fast access to __builtins__

[Greg Ewing]

Alex Martelli <aleax@aleax.it>:

> It happens, though -- for code whose performance is not important,
> e.g. initialization and "resetting" kind of stuff, a PyRun_String can be
> SO much more concise and handier than meticulous expansion of
> basically the same things into tens of lines of C code...

Nowadays you can let Pyrex do the expansion for you...:-)

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