wish: multiline comments

[Paul M]

Whoops, I sent that off without finishing...

After importing foo2 there is a *.pyc file of ~ 2.6MB.  Less than the
original *.py file of 2.8MB but quite large still.

Comments?  Did I do something wrong?

Paul M wrote in message <823l8h$shm$1 at news.ycc.yale.edu>...
>Yes, but try:
>
>
>Python 1.5.2 (#0, Apr 13 1999, 10:51:12) [MSC 32 bit (Intel)] on
win32
>Copyright 1991-1995 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam
>>>> f = open('foo2.py', 'w')
>>>> f.write('"""')
>>>> for i in range(100000):
>...     f.write('a comment\nmore commenatry\n')
>...
>>>> f.write('"""')
>>>> f.write('\nprint 'Finished!')
>
>Now try it.  On NT4, with Python 1.5.2 I get....
>
>C:\>python foo2.py
>Finished!
>
>Now try importing it:
>
>>>> import foo2
>Finished!
>>>>
>
>Tres Seaver wrote in message ...
>>
>>In article <009901bf3c15$6d5c5290$4500a8c0 at thomasnotebook>,
>>Thomas Heller <thomas.heller at ion-tof.com> wrote:
>>>> well, the compiler throws away strings that does
>>>> not appear in valid docstring positions.  if you put
>>>> this in a module:
>>>>
>>>> class B:
>>>>     "this is class B"
>>>>     """"
>>>> okay. this is a 42 million line comment string.
>>>> etc etc etc
>>>> """
>>>>
>>>> and import it, the PYC file is smaller than you
>>>> may think.
>>>
>>>AFAIK, python chokes on source files with more than
>>>32767 lines (or was it 65536)?
>>>But I never tried it.
>>>
>>
>>[/home/tres] $ uname -a
>>Linux silver 2.0.36 #1 Tue Oct 13 22:17:11 EDT 1998 i586 unknown
>>[/home/tres] $ python
>>Python 1.5.1 (#1, Jan 31 1999, 17:30:49)  [GCC 2.7.2.3] on linux2
>>Copyright 1991-1995 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam
>>>>> f = open( 'foo.py', 'w' )
>>>>> for i in range( 100000 ):
>>...    f.write( 'x = 1\n' )
>>...
>>>>> f.close()
>>>>> ^D
>>[/home/tres] $ python foo.py
>>Memory fault (core dumped)
>>[/home/tres] $ gdb python core
>>GNU gdb 4.17.0.4 with Linux/x86 hardware watchpoint and FPU support
>>Copyright 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>>GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and
>you are
>>welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain
>conditions.
>>Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
>>There is absolutely no warranty for GDB.  Type "show warranty" for
>details.
>>This GDB was configured as "i386-redhat-linux"...
>>Core was generated by `python foo.py'.
>>Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
>>Reading symbols from /lib/libdl.so.2...done.
>>Reading symbols from /lib/libpthread.so.0...done.
>>Reading symbols from /lib/libm.so.6...done.
>>Reading symbols from /lib/libc.so.6...done.
>>Reading symbols from /lib/ld-linux.so.2...done.
>>#0  0x805f813 in PyNode_AddChild (n1=0x4005eff8, type=265, str=0x0,
>>    lineno=32768) at node.c:73
>>73              n = &n1->n_child[n1->n_nchildren++];
>>(gdb) where
>>#0  0x805f813 in PyNode_AddChild (n1=0x4005eff8, type=265, str=0x0,
>>    lineno=32768) at node.c:73
>>#1  0x805fa46 in push (s=0x80b9340, type=265, d=0x808fb30,
>newstate=1,
>>    lineno=32768) at parser.c:178
>>#2  0x805fbaf in PyParser_AddToken (ps=0x80b9340, type=1,
>str=0x9d3a588 "x",
>>    lineno=32768) at parser.c:263
>>#3  0x804f4eb in parsetok (tok=0x80ae1d8, g=0x8090390, start=257,
>>    err_ret=0xbffffc24) at parsetok.c:163
>>#4  0x804f3f1 in PyParser_ParseFile (fp=0x8094908,
>>    filename=0xbffffeb2 "foo.py", g=0x8090390, start=257, ps1=0x0,
>ps2=0x0,
>>    err_ret=0xbffffc24) at parsetok.c:113
>>#5  0x805bf5c in PyParser_SimpleParseFile (fp=0x8094908,
>>    filename=0xbffffeb2 "foo.py", start=257) at pythonrun.c:946
>>#6  0x805bdcd in PyRun_File (fp=0x8094908, filename=0xbffffeb2
>"foo.py",
>>    start=257, globals=0x8095d68, locals=0x8095d68) at
>pythonrun.c:855
>>#7  0x805b5a6 in PyRun_SimpleFile (fp=0x8094908, filename=0xbffffeb2
>"foo.py")
>>    at pythonrun.c:565
>>#8  0x805b235 in PyRun_AnyFile (fp=0x8094908, filename=0xbffffeb2
>"foo.py")
>>    at pythonrun.c:444
>>#9  0x804f281 in Py_Main (argc=2, argv=0xbffffdf8) at main.c:286
>>#10 0x804ed22 in main (argc=2, argv=0xbffffdf8) at python.c:10
>>(gdb)
>>
>>It GPFs on NT4 with 1.5.2, as well.
>>
>>Tres.
>>--
>>---------------------------------------------------------------
>>Tres Seaver           tseaver at palladion.com       713-523-6582
>>Palladion Software    http://www.palladion.com
>