On Aug 1, 4:26 pm, Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote: > On 8/1/2010 4:30 AM, Gregory Ewing wrote: > > > Steven D'Aprano wrote: > > >> If you mean a runtime optimization with no change to the source file, > >> then maybe, tell me more. > > > Note that you don't necessarily need a separate file for this. > > It could just be a separate part of the same file. > > Which is to say, all the docstrings in a modules *could* be placed at > the end and not normally read in by the interpreter until needed.
I'm going to guess that they don't want that in *.pyc files. In PEP 3147 they proposed a fat-format file (so a glob for each version) and it was not popular. > I have > no idea what it does now, There's a short header, then the rest of the file is a single marshaled glob. > but I suspect not that. It might make module > loading a bit faster. True but still probably a small optimization. Carl Banks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
