[Python-Dev] Anyone building Python --without-doc-strings? (original) (raw)

Stefan Krah stefan at bytereef.org
Sat Jan 26 16:47:39 CET 2013


Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:

Well... Speaking personally, I'd much rather stop shipping and "supporting" such obscure build options. I'd like to hear about people using production Pythons --without-doc-strings.

I'm not sure how accurate the output is for measuring these things, but according to ls'' and du'' the option is indeed quite worthless:

./configure CFLAGS="-Os -s" LDFLAGS="-s" && make

$ du -h build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.4/ 24K build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.4/pycache 3.9M build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.4/

$ ls -lh python 1.8M Jan 26 16:36 python $ ls -lh libpython3.4m.a 9.6M Jan 26 16:36 libpython3.4m.a

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./configure --without-doc-strings CFLAGS="-Os -s" LDFLAGS="-s" && make

$ du -h build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.4/ 24K build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.4/pycache 3.8M build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.4/

$ ls -lh python 1.6M Jan 26 16:33 python $ ls -lh libpython3.4m.a 9.4M Jan 26 16:33 libpython3.4m.a

Stefan Krah



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