tuple creation in C extensions

[Peter Schneider-Kamp]

Just van Rossum wrote:
> 
> >Just van Rossum <just at letterror.com> writes:
> >
> >This is a shorter-to-write, slower-to-run version.  If you use
> >Py_BuildValue, the code has to parse the format string in order to
> >build the object.  If you are coding in C because you're trying to
> >speed up a speed-critical part of your program, the code you posted is
> >the better way.
> 
> On the other hand, creating tuples is probably not often something one does
> inside an inner loop...

On yet another hand it was for an IndexError patch for the
main Python distribution. Not that it really matters as the
patch was (for good reasons) not accepted. Just that speed 
was the main problem. ;)

thnx-for-the-help-though-ly y'rs Peter
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