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authorRaymond Hettinger <rhettinger@users.noreply.github.com>2019-02-03 06:54:56 (GMT)
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2019-02-03 06:54:56 (GMT)
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bpo-35884: Add variable access benchmarking script (GH-11725)
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* Added new opcode :opcode:`END_ASYNC_FOR` for handling exceptions raised
when awaiting a next item in an :keyword:`async for` loop.
(Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:`33041`.)
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+Demos and Tools
+---------------
+
+* Added a benchmark script for timing various ways to access variables:
+ ``Tools/scripts/var_access_benchmark.py``.
+ (Contributed by Raymond Hettinger in :issue:`35884`.)