[Python-Dev] Recent changes to PyCodeObject

[Brett Cannon]

I know you got your answer to why the change occurred, but a patch to
update any outdated comments would be appreciated. :)

On Thu, 17 Nov 2016 at 07:55 Ned Batchelder <ned at nedbatchelder.com> wrote:

> On 11/17/16 10:09 AM, Cody Piersall wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 6:18 PM, Ned Batchelder <ned at nedbatchelder.com>
> wrote:
> >> When I added Python 3.6 support to coverage.py, I posted a Mac wheel to
> >> PyPI: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/coverage/  That wheel was built
> >> against 3.6a3, the latest version at the time.  When I use it now on
> >> 3.6b3, it doesn't work right.  The reason is that the co_firstlineno
> >> field in PyCodeObject moved in September, as part of the PEP 523 work:
> >>
> https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/f1e6d88b3ca2b56d51d87b6b38ea1870c5d9490c
> >>
> >> The docs say that PyCodeObject can change at any time, but I don't see
> >> why the field had to move in the first place.  Was this needed?
> > Christian Heimes had the idea so that memory consumption wouldn't be
> > impacted by adding co_extra to the struct:
> > https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2016-August/145961.html
> >
>
> Thanks, I should have searched :)
>
> --Ned.
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