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Author ncoghlan
Recipients Ramchandra Apte, amak, eric.araujo, ezio.melotti, georg.brandl, giampaolo.rodola, hynek, ncoghlan, pmoody, python-dev, sandro.tosi, serhiy.storchaka, terry.reedy, tshepang
Date 2012-07-07.15:12:28
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My guess would be that they're intended as a micro-optimisation (instance lookups should be faster than class attribute lookups). You do lose on the memory front though, since they make the instances bigger.

Without a micro benchmark of any kind, I'm not inclined to mess with them at this point.
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