[Python-ideas] Move optional data out of pyc files

[Terry Reedy]

On 4/11/2018 4:26 AM, Petr Viktorin wrote:

> Currently in Fedora, we ship *both* optimized and non-optimized pycs to 
> make sure both -O and non--O will work nicely without root privilieges. 
> So splitting the docstrings into a separate file would be, for us, a 
> benefit in terms of file size.

Currently, the Windows installer has an option to pre-compile stdlib 
modules.  (At least it does if one does an all-users installation.)  If 
one selects this, it creates normal, -O, and -OO versions of each. 
Since, like most people, I never run with -O or  -OO, replacing this 
redundancy with 1 segmented file or 2 non-redundant files might be a win 
for most people.

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Terry Jan Reedy