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Message400427

Author	gvanrossum
Recipients	Mark.Shannon, brett.cannon, eric.snow, gvanrossum, lemburg, ronaldoussoren
Date	2021-08-27.14:33:05
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We should ask Neil S. for the issue where Larry introduced this. That might have some discussion. But if I had to guess, it’s confusing that you can see Python source that you can’t edit (or rather, where editing doesn’t get reflected in the next Python run, unless you also compile it. I know that occasionally a debug session I add a print statement to a stdlib module. -- --Guido (mobile)

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We should ask Neil S. for the issue where Larry introduced this. That might
have some discussion.

But if I had to guess, it’s confusing that you can see *Python* source that
you can’t edit (or rather, where editing doesn’t get reflected in the next
Python run, unless you also compile it.

I know that occasionally  a debug session I add a print statement to a
stdlib module.
-- 
--Guido (mobile)

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Date	User	Action	Args
2021-08-27 14:33:05	gvanrossum	set	recipients: + gvanrossum, lemburg, brett.cannon, ronaldoussoren, Mark.Shannon, eric.snow
2021-08-27 14:33:05	gvanrossum	link	issue45020 messages
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