Variant of patch #423262: Change module attribute get & set
Allow module getattr and setattr to exploit string interning, via the
previously null module object tp_getattro and tp_setattro slots. Yields
a very nice speedup for things like random.random and os.path etc.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 8b4021f..b485959 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -44,6 +44,9 @@
'x in y' and 'x not in y' (PySequence_Contains() in C API)
operator.countOf() (PySequence_Count() in C API)
+- Accessing module attributes is significantly faster (for example,
+ random.random or os.path or yourPythonModule.yourAttribute).
+
- Comparing dictionary objects via == and != is faster, and now works even
if the keys and values don't support comparisons other than ==.