A better self

[Peter Hansen]

"Louis M. Pecora" wrote:
> 
> In article <c9YZ8.176223$iX5.9007013 at bin3.nnrp.aus1.giganews.com>,
> Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> 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.

This text by Guido sort of already does, in the conclusion section:

http://www.python.org/doc/essays/list2str.html

-Peter