if __debug__:

    log(factorial(2**15))

Running python with -O will squash this statement. To have something inline, you could also abuse assert statements to do the job.

def debug_log(x):

    log(x)

    return True

assert debug_log(factorial(2**15))

In optimized builds, the statement will be removed entirely.

On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 1:28 AM, anatoly techtonik <techtonik@gmail.com> wrote:

For the logging module it will be extremely useful if Python included a way to disactivate processing certain blocks to avoid making sacrifices between extensive logging harness and performance. For example, instead of writing:

if log.DEBUG==True:

  log(factorial(2**15))

It should be possible to just write:

  log(factorial(2**15))

if if log() is an instance of some Nopable class, the statement in log's braces is not executed.

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