[niemeyer@conectiva.com: Re: [Python-Dev] Python's footprint]

Neil Schemenauer nas@python.ca
Fri, 18 Jan 2002 07:15:54 -0800


Guido van Rossum wrote:
> What's the current thinking about making docstrings optional?
> 
> Does everybody agree on Gustavo's patch?

10% space saving?  That doesn't seem to be worth the effort.  OTOH,
I'm not dealing with any platforms that are memory constrained right
now.

  Neil