[Python-Dev] Python's footprint

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Greg Ward wrote:
> 
> On 08 November 2001, Gustavo Niemeyer said:
> > It means that about 10% of python's executable is documentation.
> 
> Interesting!  I wonder what the corresponding figure for .pyc files in
> the std library is.
> 
> > Now I'm
> > wondering if something like a DOCSTRING("foo") macro would be valid in
> > that case. If the user disabled it trough --disable-doc, for example,
> > DOCSTRING() would return "".
> 
> I think it would have to be a bit fancier than that; wouldn't you also
> have to specify the name of the C identifier into which that
> documentation is put?  That's doable in an all-ANSI-C world, but
> trickier than DOCSTRING("foo").
> 
> Anyways, that sounds like a useful idea.  It would probably be a big
> patch that touches lots of files, so it's unlikely to get into Python
> 2.2.  You might consider whipping up a patch now to get it under
> consideration early in 2.3's life-cycle.

Even better: why not work together with Martin to have the doc-strings
localized ?! (One of the possible languages could then be the emtpy
one ;-)

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