[Python-Dev] Re: PEP 282 comments (original) (raw)

Jeremy Hylton jeremy@zope.com
Thu, 21 Mar 2002 20:38:39 -0500

"A" == aahz <aahz@pythoncraft.com> writes:

A> Hrm. Based on previous comments, particularly from the Timbot, A> I'm wondering whether the linkage between !debugging and A> optimizing is too tight in Python, and whether constructs like A> this should be deprecated. Seems to me that there will A> definitely be times you want debugging output when you're running A> -O.

There definitely are times when we want debugging outputs when running with -O, but we live with restarting the server in those cases. There is such a big performance benefit to not even compiling the code when -O is enabled.

Jeremy