Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster?

Chris Angelico rosuav at gmail.com
Sat Mar 12 05:40:48 EST 2016


On Sat, Mar 12, 2016 at 9:34 PM, BartC <bc at freeuk.com> wrote:
>> The act of "fixing" it, as you say, would change the semantics of the
>> language in a fundamental and major way.  Strings by definition are
>> immutable in Python.
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> Yet INPLACE_ADD is a valid byte-code even when operating on strings.

That's because INPLACE_ADD is a valid byte-code regardless of what
it's working on.

ChrisA



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