A better self

[brueckd at tbye.com]

On Fri, 19 Jul 2002, Louis M. Pecora wrote:

> > Certainly, copying a global or builtin method to a local for
> > repeated use is a standard Python speedup trick.
> 
> I learn something every day.  We should have a collection of speedup
> tricks listed somewhere. 

We do, but we keep it fairly hidden because consulting the list too early 
or too often is worse than not having a list. <0.5 wink>

-Dave