Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: After expanding PyArg_Parse for "i" and "D" codes above tests give following results:
$ ./python -m timeit "chr(0x20ac)" 1000000 loops, best of 3: 0.558 usec per loop $ ./python -m timeit -s "from cmath import isnan; x = 1j" -- "isnan(x)" 1000000 loops, best of 3: 0.278 usec per loop About twice in comparison with initial variant! ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue23492> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com