[Python-Dev] Inconsistent behaviour in import/zipimport hooks

[Guido van Rossum]

> > I like Phillip's suggestion -- no new opcode, just a conditional jump
> > that can be easily optimized out.
>
> Huh?  But Phillip is suggesting a new opcode that is essentially the
> same as my proposal but naming it differently and saying the bytecode
> should get changed directly instead of having the eval loop handle the
> semantic differences based on whether -O is being used.

Sorry. Looking back they look pretty much the same to me. Somehow I
glanced over Phillip's code and thought he was proposing to use a
regular JUMP_IF opcode with the special __debug__ variable (which
would be a 3rd possibility, good if we had backwards compatibility
requirements for bytecode -- which we don't, fortunately :-).

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