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

Michael Hudson mwh at python.net
Fri Oct 14 10:23:40 CEST 2005

"Phillip J. Eby" <pje at telecommunity.com> writes:

Even better if the lines for a particular piece of code don't have to all come from the same file.

This seems fairly esoteric to me. Why do you need it?

I can think of two uses for lnotab information: printing source lines and locating source lines on the filesystem. For both, I think I'd rather see some kind of defined protocol (methods on the code object, maybe?) rather than inventing some kind of insane too-general-for-the-common-case data structure.

Cheers, mwh

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