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

[M.-A. Lemburg]

"Barry A. Warsaw" wrote:
> 
> >>>>> "NS" == Neil Schemenauer <nas@python.ca> writes:
> 
>     >> What's the current thinking about making docstrings optional?
>     >> Does everybody agree on Gustavo's patch?
> 
>     NS> 10% space saving?  That doesn't seem to be worth the effort.
>     NS> OTOH, I'm not dealing with any platforms that are memory
>     NS> constrained right now.
> 
> Personally I don't care either for the same reasons.  I'll just note
> that what Emacs used to do (maybe it still does, I dunno), is extract
> all its inlined docstrings into a separate file which could be thrown
> away if you didn't want to pay for the bloat.  All that complexity was
> built in a time when 300KB or so of docstrings really could make a
> huge difference for download times or storage resources.

You should also consider the possibility of using the macros
for translating the docs-strings. They are a form of markup.

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