adam.pre...@gmail.com wrote:
I've figured from this that I could do most variable access by just generating LOAD/STORE_NAME and the FAST is an (important) optimization.
Yes, that's possible, although access to intermediate scopes (i.e. nonlocal) will need something else.
An important exception there would be for built-ins and presumably imported stuff, right?
No, importing things just binds names in your module namespace, so LOAD_GLOBAL does for them too. Also builtins, since if LOAD_GLOBAL doesn't find something in the module namespace, it looks in the builtins.
I'm asking because right now I've literally hard-coded some logic that tells me if I'm generating a class body so I know to use names. I just feel kind of silly doing that.
There's nothing silly about that -- it's effectively what CPython does. -- Greg -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
