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

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Thu Jun 14 14:14:54 CEST 2012

On Thu, 14 Jun 2012 12:58:16 +0100 Floris Bruynooghe <flub at devork.be> wrote:

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.

I don't really see the point. In my experience there is no benefit to removing assert statements in production mode. This is a C-specific notion that doesn't really map very well to Python code. Do other high-level languages have similar functionality?

Regards

Antoine.

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