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Yes, as you say, it's not known at compile-time and is checked at interpretation time, each time. http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/b49971a1e70d/Python/ceval....

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Thanks. And wow, the CPython source code seems to be very much readable. I've been meaning to dive further into Python internals for a while, maybe this is the time to do so.

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