[Python-Dev] Criticism of execfile() removal in Python3 (original) (raw)

Paul Moore p.f.moore at gmail.com
Tue Jun 10 10:41:16 CEST 2014

On 10 June 2014 08:36, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

The standard implementation of runpath reads the whole file into memory, but MicroPython would be free to optimise that and do statement by statement execution instead (while that will pose some challenges in terms of handling encoding cookies, future imports, etc correctly, it's certainly feasible).

... and if they did optimise that way, I would imagine that the patch would be a useful contribution back to the core Python stdlib, rather than remaining a MicroPython-specific optimisation.

Paul

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