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Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Wed Mar 21 19:30:00 EDT 2007


"Cameron Laird" <claird at lairds.us> wrote in message 
news:f5o8d4-uns.ln1 at lairds.us...
|| Peter is trying to communicate that some aspects of Python are
| quite conservative, well-documented, and unlikely to change
| across versions or implementations.  The syntax of, let's say,
| "def", is an example of such an aspect.
|
| Peter has no particular evidence about the guarantees of the
|    sys._getframe(1).f_code.co_consts[0]
| resolution; for all he or I know, the core Python maintainers
| might change in an upcoming release the implementation of
| co_consts.  That's what I believe he intends you understand by
| "brittle".

There is also no reason to expect that such code would work with Python 
interpreters other than CPython.

tjr






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