Re: generator expressions: performance anomaly?

[Steven Bethard]

Stephen Thorne wrote:
On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 23:09:57 -0700, Steven Bethard
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
@with_consts(i=1, deftime=time.ctime())
def foo(x, y=123, *args, **kw):
    return x*y, kw.get('which_time')=='now' and time.ctime() or deftime
Then you don't have to mix parameter declarations with locals definitions.
[1] I have no idea how implementable such a decorator would be.  I'd
just like to see function constants declared separate from arguments
since they mean such different things.

(untested)
def with_constant(**constants_kwargs):  
  def decorator(f)
    def closure(*arg, **kwargs):
      kwargs.update(constants_kwargs)
      return f(*arg, **kwargs)
    return closure
  return decorator
This doesn't quite work because it still requires that f take the 
constants as parameters:

py> def with_constant(**constants_kwargs):
...     def decorator(f):
...         def closure(*arg, **kwargs):
...             kwargs.update(constants_kwargs)
...             return f(*arg, **kwargs)
...         return closure
...     return decorator
...
py> @with_constant(x=1)
... def f(y):
...     return x + y
...
py> f(1)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<interactive input>", line 1, in ?
  File "<interactive input>", line 5, in closure
TypeError: f() got an unexpected keyword argument 'x'
I screwed around for a while with:
    ctypes.pythonapi.PyFrame_LocalsToFast(ctypes.py_object(frame), 0)
which will let you propagate updates made to frame.f_locals, but only if 
you don't *add* any locals to the frame, as far as I can tell:

py> def f(x=1):
...     frame = sys._getframe()
...     frame.f_locals["x"] = 2
...     print x
...
py> f()
1
py> def f(x=1):
...     frame = sys._getframe()
...     frame.f_locals["x"] = 2
...     ctypes.pythonapi.PyFrame_LocalsToFast(
...         ctypes.py_object(frame), 0)
...     print x
...
py> f()
2
py> def f(x=1):
...     frame = sys._getframe()
...     frame.f_locals["y"] = 2
...     ctypes.pythonapi.PyFrame_LocalsToFast(
...         ctypes.py_object(frame), 0)
...     print y
...
py> f()
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<interactive input>", line 1, in ?
  File "<interactive input>", line 6, in f
NameError: global name 'y' is not defined
Steve
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