Oct. 11, 2000
2:54 p.m.
Can't user Python code, fiddling around with bytecode, produce garbled bytecode? In that case, it seems even better to raise an exception.
Yes, they can produce garbled bytecode, and if that is detected, it's not safe to proceed. So a fatal error is the right thing. --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)