[Python-ideas] Python-ideas Digest, Vol 90, Issue 30

[M.-A. Lemburg]

On 22.05.2014 17:39, Paul Moore wrote:
> On 22 May 2014 16:29, Ned Batchelder <ned at nedbatchelder.com> wrote:
>> I would not say the idea was debated.  You can read the (short) thread here:
>> https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2012-December/123022.html .
>> Mark Shannon proposed emitting different bytecode for while loops and some
>> other constructs.  Guido said no PEP was needed.  Nick Coghlan said "main
>> challenge is to keep stepping through the code with pdb sane" (I agree with
>> that!). I said it would be good to have a way to disable optimizations,
>> Guido said "+1".
>>
>> I put this idea here because the discussion on issue2506 got involved enough
>> that someone suggested this was the right place for it. I linked to Guido's
>> sentiment in my initial post here, and had hoped that he would chime in.
> 
> OK, thanks for the summary.
> 
> Personally, I still think the biggest issue is around pyc files. I
> think any proposal needs an answer to that (even if it's just that
> no-optimisation mode never reads or writes bytecode files). Expecting
> users to manually manage pyc files is a bad idea. Well, that and any
> implementation complexity, which I'll leave to others to consider.

Why not simply have the new option disable writing PYC files ?

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