Quick question about CPython interpreter

[Chris Angelico]

On Tue, 18 Oct 2022 at 03:51, Stefan Ram <ram at zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
>
> MRAB <python at mrabarnett.plus.com> writes:
> >It can't optimise that because, say, 'print' could've been bound to a
> >function that rebinds 'str'.
>
>   It would be possible to find out whether a call of a function
>   named "print" is to the standard function, but the overhead
>   to do this in the end might slow down the execution.
>
>   In general, it can be possible that there could be optimizer
>   stages after compilation. So, one might write a small micro-
>   benchmark to be sure.
>

You'd also have to ensure that the stringification of the ID doesn't
change (which it can it it isn't a core data type), and the easiest
way to do THAT is to call str() on the ID every time and see if it's
the same...

ChrisA