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[Python-Dev] Making builtins more efficient

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Guido van Rossum wrote:

> I don't see why everything that doesn't make sense to be shadowed
> ought to become a keyword.

That wasn't the reason. I was thinking it
would be nice if one could use True and False
instead of 1 and 0 in the knowledge that it
wasn't costing a couple of dictionary lookups.

However, if a more general way is found of
optimising global lookups, this may become a
non-issue.

Greg

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