[issue34208] Change in 3.7 expression evaluation?

[Eryk Sun]

Eryk Sun <eryksun at gmail.com> added the comment:

Please refrain from using the issue tracker to satisfy your curiosity. This is a question about compiler optimizations that should be asked on python-list, or maybe python-dev. 

You can use the dis module to get a superficial answer in terms of the constants in the code object. 

3.6:

    >>> dis.dis('(100 * 20) is 2000')
      1           0 LOAD_CONST               3 (2000)
                  2 LOAD_CONST               2 (2000)
                  4 COMPARE_OP               8 (is)
                  6 RETURN_VALUE

3.7:

    >>> dis.dis('(100 * 20) is 2000')
      1           0 LOAD_CONST               0 (2000)
                  2 LOAD_CONST               0 (2000)
                  4 COMPARE_OP               8 (is)
                  6 RETURN_VALUE

The argument of the LOAD_CONST opcode is the index of the constant in the code object's co_consts tuple. In 3.6 you can see it's separate int objects, but in 3.7 the operation uses the same int object (index 0).

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nosy: +eryksun
resolution:  -> not a bug
stage:  -> resolved
status: open -> closed

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