PEP 312 (and thus 308) implemented with a black magic trick

[Michael Hudson]

mis6 at pitt.edu (Michele Simionato) writes:

> Today I had an illumination on how to implement both PEP 312 and 308
> in current Python. I think I will share the idea, even if I would *not* 
> recommend to use such a dirty trick in production code.

Do you know about my bytecodehacks?  They might appeal to your
hackerish instincts...

I once proposed an "explosive license" for things like this: if you
use them in production code, your shoes explode.

Cheers,
M.

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