[niemeyer@conectiva.com: Re: [Python-Dev] Python's footprint] (original) (raw)

Gustavo Niemeyer niemeyer@conectiva.com
Thu, 10 Jan 2002 22:49:08 -0200

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Hi everyone!

Now that 2.2 is history (well, kind of ;-), would it be the time to think about this again?

Thank you!

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Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 20:07:03 -0200 From: Gustavo Niemeyer <niemeyer@conectiva.com> To: python-dev@python.org Subject: Re: [Python-Dev] Python's footprint In-Reply-To: <20011108165105.A29947@gerg.ca> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i

> It means that about 10% of python's executable is documentation. [...] Anyways, that sounds like a useful idea. It would probably be a big patch that touches lots of files, so it's unlikely to get into Python 2.2. You might consider whipping up a patch now to get it under consideration early in 2.3's life-cycle.

Ok. The patch is ready (attached). It's very simple. Just introducing two new macros: Py_DOCSTR() to be used in usual doc strings, and WITH_DOC_STRINGS, for more complex ones (sys module's doc string comes into my mind).

I'd just like to know the moment when it is going to be applied, so I can change every documentation string accordingly and submit the patch. I could do this right now, for sure. But if it's going to be applied just for 2.3, the patch will certainly be broken at that time.

Thanks!

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--- Python-2.2.orig/pyconfig.h.in Wed Nov 14 17:54:31 2001 +++ Python-2.2/pyconfig.h.in Wed Nov 14 19:08:08 2001 @@ -765,3 +765,13 @@ #define STRICT_SYSV_CURSES /* Don't use ncurses extensions / #endif =20 +/ Define if you want to have inline documentation. / +#undef WITH_DOC_STRINGS + +/ Define macro for inline documentation. */ +#ifdef WITH_DOC_STRINGS +#define Py_DOCSTR(x) x +#else +#define Py_DOCSTR(x) "" +#endif + --- Python-2.2.orig/configure.in Wed Nov 14 17:54:31 2001 +++ Python-2.2/configure.in Wed Nov 14 19:20:07 2001 @@ -1305,6 +1305,20 @@ fi AC_MSG_RESULT($with_cycle_gc) =20 +# Check for --with-doc-strings +AC_MSG_CHECKING(for --with-doc-strings) +AC_ARG_WITH(doc-strings, +[ --with(out)-doc-strings disable/enable documentation strings]) + +if test -z "$with_doc_strings" +then with_doc_strings=3D"yes" +fi +if test "$with_doc_strings" !=3D "no" +then

+fi +AC_MSG_RESULT($with_doc_strings) +

Check for Python-specific malloc support

AC_MSG_CHECKING(for --with-pymalloc) AC_ARG_WITH(pymalloc,

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