Message 339437 - Python tracker

Message339437

Author	serhiy.storchaka
Recipients	methane, rhettinger, serhiy.storchaka
Date	2019-04-04.08:40:34
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I think it is for historical reasons. Currently statements consisting of a constant expression are not compiled to a bytecode and do not add a value to co_consts. But when this optimization was not yet added, the first element of co_consts with a docstring was a docstring. So why add co_doc if the docstring is already available? This can be changed, but this is a breaking change, and what we will got instead? Function's __name__ is set from code object's co_name.

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I think it is for historical reasons. Currently statements consisting of a constant expression are not compiled to a bytecode and do not add a value to co_consts. But when this optimization was not yet added, the first element of co_consts with a docstring was a docstring. So why add co_doc if the docstring is already available?

This can be changed, but this is a breaking change, and what we will got instead?

Function's __name__ is set from code object's co_name.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2019-04-04 08:40:34	serhiy.storchaka	set	recipients: + serhiy.storchaka, rhettinger, methane
2019-04-04 08:40:34	serhiy.storchaka	set	messageid: <1554367234.76.0.589006891219.issue36521@roundup.psfhosted.org>
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2019-04-04 08:40:34	serhiy.storchaka	create