Alexandru Moșoi wrote:
From: "Cesare Di Mauro" <[email protected]>
So if Python will generate

LOAD_CONST      1
LOAD_CONST      2
BINARY_ADD

the constant folding code will simply replace them with a single

LOAD_CONST      3

When working with such kind of optimizations, the temptation is to
apply them at any situation possible. For example, in other languages
this

a = b * 2 * 3

will be replaced by

a = b * 6

In Python I can't do that, because b can be an object which overloaded
the * operator, so it *must* be called two times, one for 2 and one for 3.

Not necessarily. For example C/C++ doesn't define the order of the
operations inside an expression (and AFAIK neither Python)

Yes is does. Expression/Evaluation order "Python evaluates expressions from left to right."

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