On 15/04/2017 00:40, Rick Johnson wrote:
On Wednesday, April 12, 2017 at 1:48:57 AM UTC-5, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
answer = 0 for i in range(10): answer += 1 instead of answer = 10 So... how exactly does the compiler prohibit stupid code?Easy. The same way _any_ optimizer optimizes code, by analysing the code!
In Python, the optimising would need to be done every time you run from source. You can't spend too long at it. (I don't know how much it relies on caching pre-compiled byte-code.)
In this example, the integer named
'answer` is simply being incremented in a superfluous loop. Nothing here is "dynamic".
In Python, nearly everything is. For example:
* `range(10)` will always produce a list of the _same_ 10 integers.
You don't know if 'range' is still a range. If this has been executed first, then the answer will be 20:
oldrange=range def double(x): return oldrange(x*2) range=double
* `for i in range(10)` will aways iterate over the _same_ 10 integers
And range could be set to something else each time the loop is executed.
* `answer += 1` will always increment the "current integer value" by 1
I don't know if it's possible to override __iadd__ for integers so that +=1 does something different here.
But if there is any code between answer=0 and the start of the loop, then there is the possibility that answer could be something different.
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