Malcolm Greene wrote: > We're writing a DSL parser that generates Python code. While the size of > our generated code will be small (< 32K), I wanted to re-assure the rest > of our team that there are no reasonable code size boundaries that we > need to be concerned about. I've searched for Python documentation that > covers max Python source (*.py) and compiled file (*.pyc) sizes without > success. Any tips on where to look for this information? > > Background: Python 3.5.1 on Linux.
I don't know if/where this is documented, but there are structural limits: >>> def nested(N): ... return "".join(" " * i + "if 1:\n" for i in range(N)) + " " * N + "print('hi')" ... >>> print(nested(3)) if 1: if 1: if 1: print('hi') >>> exec(nested(99)) hi >>> exec(nested(100)) Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> File "<string>", line 101 print('hi') ^ IndentationError: too many levels of indentation -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list