R. David Murray added the comment:
pyo files weren't removed, they were just renamed, and -O differentiated from
-OO. The provides the opportunity to introduce additional "optimized byte
code" versions that do other optimizations, which several people are working
on. There are also other asp
Emanuel Barry added the comment:
*.pyo files have been removed from the language as of 3.5; instead, the
optimization is done directly to the *.pyc files. Are you suggesting
re-introducing *.pyo files or changing this behaviour in the current model?
Also, 'if type(obj) is int' is *not* the sam
Chris Angelico added the comment:
The trouble with that example is that the semantics aren't the same. The
isinstance check will also be true for subclasses of int (for instance,
isinstance(True,int) is True), but the equality check will catch only exact
matches. And that's even before conside
New submission from Devyn Johnson:
I have a suggestion. When Python code is byte-compiled to *.pyo files, what if
byte-compiler were to be made to enhance some of the code. For instance, "if
type(OBJECT) == int:" would be changed to "if isinstance(OBJECT, int):". Python
is used in numerous sof
