[Python-ideas] Augment dis.dis to autocompile strings

[Terry Reedy]

Currently
"dis.dis(x=None)
Disassemble the x object. x can denote either a module, a class, a 
method, a function, or a code object. "

The behavior depends on the class of x, so dis already has an internal 
switch.

Currently, to see the assembly equivalent of CPython bytecode for a 
small snippet, one must either wrap it in a function or *remember*
the exact idiom: compile("while True: break", "", "exec")

Proposal: if the input is a string, do the above (do what I mean)
instead of raising
TypeError: don't know how to disassemble str objects

Any negatives before I submit a feature request?

Terry Jan Reedy