Erik Max Francis wrote: > Fernando Perez wrote: > >> Can someone explain to me what the extra two bytecodes at the end of the >> function version (ff) are for? >> >> This is just curiosity, please note that I am NOT making any arguments pro >> or against lambdas, functions or anything else. > > It's returning None. I would guess that it's a safety net to make sure > you don't fall of the end of the function without returning anything; > that is, the code analysis is not in place to see whether it's necessary > to actually include in the bytecodes or not.
Thanks, that makes sense, considering that the bytecode compiler in python does very little in the way of flow analysis. Regards, f -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
