On Thu, 14 Jun 2012 12:58:16 +0100 Floris Bruynooghe <f...@devork.be> wrote: > On 14 June 2012 11:25, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: > > Honestly, I think the best option would be to deprecate .pyo files as > > well as the useless -O option. They only cause confusion without > > providing any significant benefits. > > +1 > > But what happens to __debug__ and assert statements? I think it > should be possible to always put assert statements inside a __debug__ > block and then create -O a simple switch for setting __debug__ to > False. If desired a simple strip tool could then easily remove > __debug__ blocks and (unused) docstrings.
I don't really see the point. In my experience there is no benefit to removing assert statements in production mode. This is a C-specific notion that doesn't really map very well to Python code. Do other high-level languages have similar functionality? Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
