Terry J. Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> added the comment: Eric, can you find a place in the current doc where -O and .pyo are mentioned, and where you think a sentence should go. What sentence(s) would you like to see.
Other comments: __debug__ is intended to be a process-global compilation value (implemented as a keyword) set on startup >>> __debug__ True >>> __debug__ = False SyntaxError: assignment to keyword The devs are not willing to support having contradictory values in the same process. Indeed, since I posted last night, the pydev discussion has moved to the question of whether -O, __debug__, and .pyo as now defined are worth the nuisance they cause or whether some or all should be deprecated. (Docstring stripping for saving space could then be a separate tool.) --- Python interpreters exist to run Python code. The existence, persistence, and other details of compilation caches are version-dependent implementation details. Being able to execute from such caches without source present is also an implementation detail, and for CPython, it gets secondary support at best. (This is a compromise between full support and no support.) ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue12982> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
