Line numbers outside exceptions

[Thomas Wouters]

On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 05:33:53PM +0000, Calvelo Daniel wrote:

> >>> def spam(n="eggs"):
> ...   print n
> ...   return n
> ... 
> >>> spam.func_code.co_code 
> '\177\001\000\177\002\000|\000\000GH\177\003\000|\000\000Sd\000\000S'

> In that last string, the two bytes (this may be platform-specific) after
> a '\177' are line numbers. See 'dis'.

It's not really platform dependant. The opcode arguments (which is what you
are talking about) are always stored as two characters, regardless of, for
instance, the size of 'int' or 'long', but it *is* dependant on the size of
a 'char'. However, a ton more things are likely to break if the size of a
char isn't 8 bytes, so it's highly unlikely that you'll encounter a Python
where the above does not hold ;)

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