[Python-Dev] terminology for "free variables" in Python

[Nick Coghlan]

On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 11:23 PM, Eli Bendersky <eliben at gmail.com> wrote:
> When you say "is in the normal documentation", do you mean you added it
> recently ? Although I see it here:
> http://docs.python.org/dev/py3k/library/dis.html, it's neither in the docs
> of 3.1.2 (http://docs.python.org/py3k/library/dis.html), nor in 2.7, nor in
> a build of 3.2 I have lying around from a couple of weeks ago.

The module and docs changes both went in on August 17 as part of the
same commit (r84133), so I'm not sure how you could have a local
checkout with the module changes but not the doc changes. A checkout
from early August wouldn't have either, of course.

> I mostly use the dis module for quick-n-dirty exploration of the results of
> compilation into bytecode, and I'm sure many people use for the same effect.
> Thus show_code seems like a convenient shortcut, although not a necessary
> one. The string returned by code_info isn't interactive-shell friendly, and
> show_code saves the print(...).
>
> Personally I think that if it's there, it should be documented. If it's
> better not to use it, it should be removed or at least marked deprecated in
> the documentation/docstring.

Yeah, I changed my mind and have now documented it properly. The 3.2
versionadded tag on show_code is currently a little questionable
though. Guido actually checked in the original (undocumented) version
of show_code before 3.0 was released. The only thing new about it in
3.2 is it being mentioned in the documentation.

Cheers,
Nick.

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