Andrea Griffini wrote:
Sorry if the question is naive, but why is co_names needed? Wouldn't be simpler to just use co_consts?

One reason might be that keeping them separate means
you can have up to 256 names and 256 consts using
1-byte opcode arguments. Otherwise, you'd be limited
to a total of 256 of both.

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Greg
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