On Tuesday 11 October 2005 05:36 pm, Dave wrote:
> What exactly does it mean to "intern" a string?
For very simple strings such as "A" and for strings
used as identifiers (I think), Python creates a permanent
object during byte-code compilation. Thereafter, any
time that string value occurs in th
Dave wrote:
> What exactly does it mean to "intern" a string?
"exactly" it means to place lookup the string in the
global interning dictionary. If an entry is found,
then interning yields the string in the interning dictionary.
If the string is not found, it is added to the interning
dictionary, a
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> lookdict_string is used for most lookups of the form
> obj.attr
> because they are never found to have non-string keys
> entered or searched.
>
> Furthermore, most of these string keys are
> "interned",
> which I believe makes the check
> if (ep->me_ke
