"Joseph Garvin" wrote: > I'm curious -- what is everyone's favorite trick from a non-python > language? And -- why isn't it in Python?
Although it's an optimization rather than language trick, I like the inline functions/methods in C++. There has been a thread on that in the past (http://tinyurl.com/8ljv5) and most consider it as useless and/or very hard to implement in python without major changes in the language (mainly because it would introduce 'compile-time' lookup of callables instead of runtime, as it is now). Still it might be useful to have for time-critical situations, assuming that other optimization solutions (psyco, pyrex, weave) are not applicable. George -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
