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Author r.david.murray
Recipients eng793, r.david.murray, rhettinger, serhiy.storchaka
Date 2012-09-03.21:59:35
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No, it always has an effect.  It means that the name 'int' is bound in locals instead of being looked up via globals.  That is what makes it a micro-optimization (LOAD_FAST vs LOAD_GLOBAL, if you do a dis on the two variants).
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