[Python-Dev] Keeping interned strings in a set

Fri Jun 16 05:47:56 CEST 2006

On Jun 15, 2006, at 10:29 PM, Raymond Hettinger wrote:
>> Nicely done. It is fine by me if this goes in so we save a little 
> space in the intern table.

Thanks for the good word. I've reworked the code a little bit and 
fixed the comments. I don't have svn write access, so someone else 
will have to take over from here.
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/download.php? 
group_id=5470&atid=305470&file_id=181816&aid=1507011
>> One nit, in _Py_ReleaseInternedStrings() you can use 
> PySet_CheckExact(interned) instead of the ob_type.

That's what I wanted to use myself, but PySet_CheckExact does not 
exist. This looks like an oversight, but fixing that should probably 
come as a separate patch.