On Sun, Feb 18, 2018 at 12:31 PM, bartc <b...@freeuk.com> wrote: > On 18/02/2018 00:45, Chris Angelico wrote: >> >> On Sun, Feb 18, 2018 at 11:13 AM, bartc <b...@freeuk.com> wrote: > > >> It's text, but it is an intermediate or "object" file. It's not doing >> pointless stuff; it's coping with the myriad platforms and variants >> that Python has support for. > > > It could well do all that. But it surely cannot need 18,000 lines' worth to > do it; that much should be obvious to anyone. And in fact, for building with > MS's Visual Studio, it doesn't use that file at all, but something smaller. > (Although the MS build adds its own complexities.)
You're arguing against a strawman, and you know it. Either that, or you have a fundamental misunderstanding of "intermediate files", in which case I recommend you spend some time with a web search engine. I'm done. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
