Nick Coghlan added the comment:
All of the optimisations that assume globals haven't been shadowed or rebound
are invalid in the general case.
E.g. print(1.5) and print("1.5") are valid for *our* print function, but we
technically have no idea if they're equivalent in user code.
In short, if it involves a name lookup and that name isn't reserved to the
compiler (e.g. __debug__) then no, you're not allowed to optimise it at compile
time if you wish to remain compliant with the language spec. Method calls on
literals are always fair game, though (e.g. you could optimise "a b c".split())
Any stdlib AST optimiser would need to be substantially more conservative by
default.
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