Using fixed variables probably doesn't help

[Robert Collins]

On Fri, 2006-06-16 at 09:05 -0500, John Arbash Meinel wrote:
> 
> As far as I know we don't. And if you do socket, do you also do fifo,
> chardev, and block? They just don't seem very useful to me. I would
> promote unknown_kind = 'unknown', especially since you'll want to use
> that in your 'read_dirs' changes. (Can you call intern() in pyrex to
> make sure that you are using the interned version?)

I'm pretty sure we access all the kinds in several places to give them
the fancy output symbols and the like.

pyrex generates a single table of all the strings used in its code, and
references them at runtime, so its not the python intern table, but it
is the same string instance always.

Rob

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