[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (meta : please don't top-post) > Intuitively, the name lookup on > self.parent.foo would be faster than if you passed in the object in > question
Each dot means doing a lookup in a namespace. The more dots, the more lookups. And lookups do have a cost. -- bruno desthuilliers python -c "print '@'.join(['.'.join([w[::-1] for w in p.split('.')]) for p in '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'.split('@')])" -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list