Simple question about how the optimizer works

[Andrew Dalke]

Me:
>  As Tim Peters once pointed out, there haven't been problems with
> Python's optimization code <wink>.

Uncle Tim:
> That was before we tried any <wink>.  One of my coworkers decided they
were
> tired of seeing LOAD_CONST followed by UNARY_NEGATIVE whenever they had a
> negative literal in the source ..

That's because they spend too much time programming and not enough
time on Usenet.

                    Andrew
                    dalke at dalkescientific.com