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From: Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk>
Subject: Re: python 3 problem: how to convert an extension method into a class Method
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 19:33:32 +0000
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On 26/02/2013 18:38, Peter Otten wrote:
> Robin Becker wrote:
>
>> In python 2 I was able to improve speed of reportlab using a C extension
>> to optimize some heavily used methods.
>>
>> so I was able to do this
>>
>>
>> class A:
>>       .....
>>       def method(self,...):
>>          ....
>>
>>
>> try:
>>       from extension import c_method
>>       import new
>>       A.method = new.instancemethod(c_method,None,A)
>> except:
>>       pass
>>
>> and if the try succeeds our method is bound as a class method ie is
>> unbound and works fine when I call it.
>>
>> In python 3 this doesn't seem to work at all. In fact the new module is
>> gone. The types.MethodType stuff doesn't seem to work.
>>
>> Is there a way in Python 3.3 to make this happen? This particular method
>> is short, but is called many times so adding python wrapping layers is not
>> a good way forward.
>>
>> If the above cannot be made to work (another great victory for Python 3)
>> then is there a way to bind an external method to the instance without
>> incurring too much overhead.
>
> Hm, according to my random measurement your clever approach incurs more
> overhead than the straight-forward way that continues to work in Python 3:
>
> $ python -m timeit -s 'from new import instancemethod
>> from math import sqrt
>> class A(int): pass
>> A.m = instancemethod(sqrt, None, A)
>> a = A(42)
>> ' 'a.m()'
> 1000000 loops, best of 3: 0.5 usec per loop
> $ python -m timeit -s 'from math import sqrt
>> class A(int):
>>      def m(self):
>>          return sqrt(self)
>> a = A(42)
>> ' 'a.m()'
> 1000000 loops, best of 3: 0.473 usec per loop
>
>

c:\Users\Mark\MyPython>python
Python 3.3.0 (v3.3.0:bd8afb90ebf2, Sep 29 2012, 10:55:48) [MSC v.1600 32 
bit (Intel)] on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
 >>> import new
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: No module named 'new'

-- 
Cheers.

Mark Lawrence