[Jython-users] Use of interned strings in various jython methods

[mgreenberg <pub...@gm...>]

According to various javadoc and code usage, various methods require the 
use of interned strings.  I grepped the 2.2.1 release
code base and see various lines like

if (name == "__class__")

But don't see anywhere obvious that "__class__" gets interned (but 
presumably it does -- is that implicit in classes in a single jar or 
something?).

But, would it make sense to define constants in PyObject like
static final String __class__ = "__class__" /* .intern() ? */;

for all the well-know python attribute names.  The warning about 
interning strings in the javadoc would still be required, but this would 
prevent a certain class of errors in user code, by recommending the use 
of PyObject.__class__, PyObject.__name__, ... for  these attributes.


Marvin