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Wed May 8 16:59:09 EDT 2002

On 08-May-2002 Terry Reedy wrote:
> 
> "Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <shalehperry at attbi.com> wrote in message
> news:mailman.1020875117.14656.python-list at python.org...
>> Sure, but comments are basically free whereas the above creates an
> anonmymous
>> string which has to be garbage collected.
> 
> I once read, I believe, that free-floating (unbound) strings that do
> not become doc strings are eliminated (in batch mode) during
> compilation.
> 

yeah, Tim Peters made that comment a short while ago.