On Thu, 14 Jun 2012 11:48:08 +1000, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 6:06 AM, Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote: > > On 6/13/2012 2:46 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > > > >> Not only docstrings, but also asserts. I think running a pyo without -O > >> would be a bug. > > > > That cat is already out of the bag ;-) > > People are doing that now by renaming x.pyo to x.pyc. > > Brett claims that it is also easy to do in 3.3 with a custom importer. > > Right, but by resorting to either of those approaches, people are > clearly doing something that isn't formally supported by the core. > Yes, you can do it, and most of the time it will work out OK, but any > weird glitches that result are officially *not our problem*. > > The main reason this matters is that the "__debug__" flag is > *supposed* to be process global - if you check it in one place, the
OK, the above are the two concrete reasons I have heard in this thread for continuing the current behavior: 1) we do not wish to support running from .pyo files without -O being on, even if it currently happens to work 2) the __debug__ setting is supposed to be process-global Both of these are good reasons. IMO the issue should be closed with a documentation fix, which could optionally include either or both of the above motivations. --David _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com