[Python-Dev] special method lookup: how much do we care?

[Daniel Stutzbach]

On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 1:09 PM, Benjamin Peterson <benjamin at python.org>wrote:

> I've know hit __enter__ and __exit__. The compiler
> generates LOAD_ATTR instructions for these, so it uses the normal
> lookup. The only way I can see to fix this is add a new opcode which
> uses _PyObject_LookupSpecial, but I don't think we really care this
> much. Opinions?
>

Why does this problem arise only with __enter__ and __exit__?

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