On 03/17/2010 08:12 PM, Bruno Desthuilliers wrote: > Patrick Maupin a écrit : >> On Mar 16, 1:59 pm, Jason Tackaberry <t...@urandom.ca> wrote: >>> Why not create the bound methods at instantiation time, rather than >>> using the descriptor protocol which has the overhead of creating a new >>> bound method each time the method attribute is accessed? >> >> Well, for one thing, Python classes are open. They can be added to at >> any time. For another thing, you might not ever use most of the >> methods of an instance, so it would be a huge waste to create those. > > A possible optimization would be a simple memoization on first access.
But what if, for example, one uses some descriptor/metaclass magic to make it so that each subsequent access to the attribute returns a method bound to different objects? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
