[Python-Dev] Code Generation Idea Was: Bytecode idea

[Fred L. Drake, Jr.]

Skip Montanaro writes:
 > Hmmm...  Those code blocks would only be executed on older versions of the
 > interpreter.  Is there some way to use that knowledge to finesse the
 > problem?  It would be a real hack, but if the compiler recognized precisely
 > the above construct (or at least assignment in an except block guarded by
 > NameError), it could shut up about the assignment.

Another possibility would be that in a module containing *no*
assignments to True and False, references could be converted to
special byte codes.  Not quite the same, but allows for optimizations
at any rate.


  -Fred

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Fred L. Drake, Jr.  <fdrake at acm.org>
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