Tom Anderson wrote: > Evening all, > > Here's a brief chat with the interpretator:
[snip] > What puzzles me, though, are bytecodes 17, 39 and 42 - surely these aren't > reachable? Does the compiler just throw in a default 'return None' > epilogue, with routes there from every code path, even when it's not > needed? If so, why? I think the last RETURN_VALUE (None) isn't thrown in unless there is some sort of conditional the precedes it as in this example. As to why: it's easier and no one has done anything about fixing it. If you (or anyone else) are interested, the code is in Python/compile.c. Search for the optimize_code() function. n -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
