[Zope-dev] optimised python

[Sidnei da Silva]

On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 06:50:19AM -0500, Jim Fulton wrote:
| >There is a drawback: Debugging becomes a lot harder and sometimes  
| >impossible because you get no or faulty line number information in  
| >tracebacks and when using pdb.
| 
| That isn't true.  Line numbers are included and valid.
| 
| All -O does is:
| 
| - cause __debug__ to be false
| 
| - cause assert statements to be noop.

I think Jens was referring to the fact that since some version (which I
don't remember correctly), when run with -O python will show the line
number of the function definition on tracebacks instead of the real
line number where the exception occurred.

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