On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 6:01 PM, Gregory P. Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > It'd mean smaller code objects and less bloat from constants (docstrings for > one implementation vs another, etc) being in memory. Taken further, this > could even be extended beyond implementations to platforms as we have some > standard library code with alternate definitions within one file for windows > vs posix, etc.
To plant seeds in the opposite direction, as you're considering this, I suggest looking at: - environment markers in PEP 345 and 426 for conditional selection based on a constrained set of platform data - compatibility tags in PEP 425 (and consider how they could be used in relation to __pycache__ and bytecode-only distribution of platform specific files) Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | [email protected] | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com