On Sun, 27 Jan 2013 01:07:14 +1000 Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 12:45 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > On Sat, 26 Jan 2013 11:55:12 +0100 > > Stefan Krah <ste...@bytereef.org> wrote: > >> > >> I've subverted the build master authority on the FreeBSD-9.0 bot by > >> exporting with_doc_strings=no. This is to test #16143 and #10156. > > > > Well... Speaking personally, I'd much rather stop shipping and > > "supporting" such obscure build options. I'd like to hear about people > > using production Pythons --without-doc-strings. > > I was going to suggest that folks like the PyMite developers might use > it to create versions that run in severely constrained environments, > but it looks like they wrote their interpreter from scratch instead. > > On the other hand, I've definitely heard at least a few people talking > about using -OO to drop docstrings as a technique to reduce memory > consumption. Some of these failures would likely show up there as > well.
Using -OO is far less extreme than building your own Python with docstrings disabled. And the test suite already passes with -OO: http://buildbot.python.org/all/builders/AMD64%20Mountain%20Lion%20Optimized%20%5BSB%5D%203.x 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
