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nerdponx on Aug 31, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Reducing Python's startup time

Why would you want that when you have actual metaprogramming on code-as-data in the standard library?

fulafel on Aug 31, 2017 [–]

Is this a joke on the namedtuple trick or is there actually such a module in the standard library?

nerdponx on Sept 1, 2017 | [–]

Not a joke, but "code as data" was hyperbolic.

You can do some pretty amazing metaprogramming in Python with metaclasses, and the inspect and ast modules give you access to the guts of the language.

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