Package: python-defaults
Version: 2.7.3-11
Severity: wishlist
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Dear Maintainer,
Python of course supports -OO which both optimizes and removes
docstrings from the resulting .pyo files. This can provide
significant file size savings. pycompile currently only supports a
single -O flag, but it should support -OO too.
I'll attach a proposed patch.
- -- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers raring-updates
APT policy: (500, 'raring-updates'), (500, 'raring-security'), (500,
'raring'), (100, 'raring-backports')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.8.0-2-generic (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
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=== modified file 'pycompile'
--- pycompile 2012-06-30 12:33:33 +0000
+++ pycompile 2013-01-31 22:10:31 +0000
@@ -130,8 +130,14 @@
def py_compile(version, optimize, workers):
if not isinstance(version, basestring):
version = vrepr(version)
- cmd = "/usr/bin/python%s%s -m py_compile -" \
- % (version, ' -O' if optimize else '')
+ if optimize == 0:
+ optflag = ''
+ elif optimize == 1:
+ optflag = ' -O'
+ else:
+ optflag = ' -OO'
+
+ cmd = "/usr/bin/python%s%s -m py_compile -" % (version, optflag)
process = Popen(cmd, bufsize=1, shell=True,
stdin=PIPE, stdout=PIPE, stderr=STDOUT, close_fds=True)
workers[version] = process # keep the reference for .communicate()
@@ -190,8 +196,9 @@
default=False, help='be quiet')
parser.add_option('-f', '--force', action='store_true', dest='force',
default=False, help='force rebuild even if timestamps are up-to-date')
- parser.add_option('-O', action='store_true', dest='optimize',
- default=False, help="byte-compile to .pyo files")
+ parser.add_option('-O', action='count', dest='optimize',
+ default=0,
+ help="byte-compile to .pyo files; -OO to remove doc strings")
parser.add_option('-p', '--package',
help='specify Debian package name whose files should be bytecompiled')
parser.add_option('-V', type='version_range', dest='vrange',
@@ -209,6 +216,9 @@
(options, args) = parser.parse_args()
+ if options.optimize > 2:
+ parser.error('-O or -OO only allowed')
+
if options.verbose or environ.get('PYCOMPILE_DEBUG') == '1':
log.setLevel(logging.DEBUG)
log.debug('argv: %s', sys.argv)
