On Tue, 10 Apr 2018 19:14:58 +0300 Serhiy Storchaka <storch...@gmail.com> wrote: > Currently pyc files contain data that is useful mostly for developing > and is not needed in most normal cases in stable program. There is even > an option that allows to exclude a part of this information from pyc > files. It is expected that this saves memory, startup time, and disk > space (or the time of loading from network). I propose to move this data > from pyc files into separate file or files. pyc files should contain > only external references to external files. If the corresponding > external file is absent or specific option suppresses them, references > are replaced with None or NULL at import time, otherwise they are loaded > from external files. > > 1. Docstrings. They are needed mainly for developing.
Indeed, it may be nice to find a solution to ship them separately. > 2. Line numbers (lnotab). They are helpful for formatting tracebacks, > for tracing, and debugging with the debugger. Sources are helpful in > such cases too. If the program doesn't contain errors ;-) and is sipped > without sources, they could be removed. What is the weight of lnotab arrays? While docstrings can be large, I'm somehow skeptical that removing lnotab arrays would bring a significant improvement. It would be nice to have more data about this. > 3. Annotations. They are used mainly by third party tools that > statically analyze sources. They are rarely used at runtime. Even less used than docstrings probably. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
