[Python-Dev] #12982: Should -O be required to *read* .pyo files?

Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Wed Jun 13 22:06:22 CEST 2012


On 6/13/2012 2:46 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:

> Not only docstrings, but also asserts. I think running a pyo without -O
> would be a bug.

That cat is already out of the bag ;-)
People are doing that now by renaming x.pyo to x.pyc.
Brett claims that it is also easy to do in 3.3 with a custom importer.

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Terry Jan Reedy



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