On Sat, 11 Mar 2006 10:23:56 +1100 "Steven D'Aprano" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 09 Mar 2006 18:02:27 -0600, Terry Hancock wrote: > > > On 9 Mar 2006 07:21:00 -0800 > > "msoulier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > (and if you don't, you can quickly comment out > >regions > > by putting them inside a triple-quoted > >string.) > > >> Although that will use up memory, as opposed to a > >comment. > > > > Not really. Unless it is the first string in the block > > (class, function, module), it won't be assigned to > > anything, and will be immediately garbage-collected. > > > > It may consume space in the pyc file, I'm not sure. > > I don't believe this is true. Unassigned strings other > than the doc string are not compiled into the code: [bytecode analysis snipped] Cool. I thought that was probably true, but didn't want to guess. Cheers, Terry -- Terry Hancock ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Anansi Spaceworks http://www.AnansiSpaceworks.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
