Fred L. Drake, Jr. wrote:

>     6. Most Python processes don't need the docs anyway.  I suspect the
>        docstrings are used primarily in the interactive interpreter and other
>        development tools.

Maybe docstrings should be kept in a separate part of the
.pyc file, and not loaded into memory until requested?

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