Re: [Python-ideas] Changes to the existing optimization levels

On 9/28/17 2:48 PM, Diana Clarke wrote:

Hi folks:

I was recently looking for an entry-level cpython task to work on in my spare time and plucked this off of someone's TODO list.

"Make optimizations more fine-grained than just -O and -OO"

There are currently three supported optimization levels (0, 1, and 2). Briefly summarized, they do the following.

0: no optimizations 1: remove assert statements and __debug__ blocks 2: remove docstrings, assert statements, and __debug__ blocks

Don't forget that the current "no optimizations" setting actually does peephole optimizations.  Are we considering addressing https://bugs.python.org/issue2506 to make a really truly "no optimizations" option? --Ned.