[Python-Dev] deprecating .pyo and -O (original) (raw)

Floris Bruynooghe flub at devork.be
Thu Jun 14 13:58:16 CEST 2012


On 14 June 2012 11:25, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:

Honestly, I think the best option would be to deprecate .pyo files as well as the useless -O option. They only cause confusion without providing any significant benefits.

+1

But what happens to debug and assert statements? I think it should be possible to always put assert statements inside a debug block and then create -O a simple switch for setting debug to False. If desired a simple strip tool could then easily remove debug blocks and (unused) docstrings.

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