On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 6:14 PM, Benjamin Peterson <benja...@python.org>wrote:

> Normally special methods use slots of the PyTypeObject struct.
> typeobject.c looks up all those methods on Python classes correctly.
> In the case of __enter__ and __exit__, the compiler generates bytecode
> to look them up, and that bytecode use PyObject_Getattr.


Would this problem apply to all special methods that don't use a slot in
PyTypeObject, then?  I know of several other examples:

__reduce__
__setstate__
__reversed__
__length_hint__
__sizeof__

(unless I misunderstand the definition of "special methods", which is
possible)

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