[Python-Dev] Simplify lnotab? (AST branch update) (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Fri Oct 14 03:25:26 CEST 2005


Phillip J. Eby wrote:

+1. I'd be especially interested in lifting the current requirement that line ranges and byte ranges both increase monotonically. Even better if the lines for a particular piece of code don't have to all come from the same file.

How about an array of:

+----------------+----------------+----------------+ | bytecode index | file no. | line no. | +----------------+----------------+----------------+

Entries are sorted by bytecode index, with each entry applying from that bytecode position up to the position of the next entry. The file no. indexes a tuple of file names attached to the code object. All entries are 32-bit integers.

Easy to generate, easy to look up with a binary search, should be big enough for everyone except those generating obscenely huge code objects on 64-bit platforms.

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