Sard schrieb: > "Optimize generated bytecode (also PYTHONOPTIMIZE=x). Asserts are > suppressed." > > Is removing asserts all it does, where can I find more details? I'm > guessing it's not very useful as I hardly ever see it mentioned.
It somewhat depends on the Python version. To find out precisely what it does, search the source code for Py_OptimizeFlag. In 2.5, it - causes the interpreter to load .pyo files, not .pyc files (in .zip files, just makes .pyo preferred over .pyc) - causes __debug__ to have a value of 0 - ignores assert statements in source code - treats __debug__ statically as being 0 - causes the byte code generator to save .pyo files, not .pyc HTH, Martin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
