[Python-Dev] Unexpected bytecode difference (original) (raw)

Alexander Belopolsky alexander.belopolsky at gmail.com
Fri Jan 19 18:46:58 EST 2018


I have encountered the following difference between Python 3 and 2:

(py3)

compile('xxx', '<>', 'eval').cocode b'e\x00S\x00'

(py2)

compile('xxx', '<>', 'eval').cocode 'e\x00\x00S'

Note that 'S' (the code for RETURN_VALUE) and a zero byte are swapped in Python 2 compared to Python 3. Is this change documented somewhere?



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