[Python-Dev] PEP 329: Treating Builtins as Constants in the Standard Library

[Samuele Pedroni]

At 08:54 19.04.2004 -0400, Raymond Hettinger wrote:
>Comments are invited on a new pep:
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>         http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0329.html
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>Based on feedback received so far, there were several changes to the
>original draft:
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>* The module is public
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>* The module name reflects its nature as a bytecode hack
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>* There is a flag to disable binding
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>* Added summaries of how it works, when it is called, and the effect on
>startup time (near zero).
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>* Included a reference to Jython FAQs supporting the means for
>automatically doing nothing in environments without bytecodes.

Raymond, could you  please try to tame your speed obsession without 
devising even more hacks
and pissing in other people's pool.

Thanks.