Magnus Lycka wrote: > Konstantin Veretennicov wrote: > >> On 6/21/05, Magnus Lycka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> I don't know anything about the Python compiler internals, >>> but it doesn't seem very hard to identify simple literals following >>> while and if, and to skip the runtime test. (Perhaps it's done >>> already?) >> >> >> >> True doesn't seem to be a literal, it is looked up by name and can be >> rebound to, say, 0 anytime: > > > Right. Silly me. Maybe in some future Python version, True and False > will be constants, like None is since Python 2.4.
Actually, there is support in marshal to write True and False objects so I don't understand why this isn't in 2.4 Anyway, if you can't wait for 2.5 either use 'while 1:', or pyc[1] Stelios [1] http://students.ceid.upatras.gr/~sxanth/pyc/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
