Antoine Pitrou wrote:
Larry Hastings <larry@...> writes:
I ask you: why gunk up the filesystem with two files when one would do? I propose we change the pyc file so it can contain multiple code objects.
I think we should dump the lie about "optimized" bytecode when the only optimization is that we strip some docstrings, disable asserts and set __debug__ to False.
The fact that asserts and if __debug__ blocks get skipped under -O strikes me as more than adequate reason to consider optimised and non-optimised bytecode as different things. Sure, we don't mess with things as extensively as C/C++ do with their more aggressive optimisation settings, but completely skipping all assert statements and some if statements isn't something we can enable by default (and can't necessarily do with an after-the-fact stripping tool, since the removal of entire statements can affect the construction of the symbol table). Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia ---------------------------------------------------------------