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| author | Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan@gmail.com> | 2013-05-06 13:59:20 (GMT) |
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| committer | Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan@gmail.com> | 2013-05-06 13:59:20 (GMT) |
| commit | b39fd0c9b8dc6683924205265ff43cc597d1dfb9 (patch) | |
| tree | b12d71e0b726b4b3e3c96ba229b0573a084df473 /Doc/whatsnew | |
| parent | 9d351332a7b65e8e03725bc469b7989ccd68143f (diff) | |
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Issue #11816: multiple improvements to the dis module
* get_instructions generator
* ability to redirect output to a file
* Bytecode and Instruction abstractions
Patch by Nick Coghlan, Ryan Kelly and Thomas Kluyver.
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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst index 9774241..c6b1645 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst @@ -152,6 +152,21 @@ Improved Modules ================ +dis +--- + +The :mod:`dis` module is now built around an :class:`Instruction` class that +provides details of individual bytecode operations and a +:func:`get_instructions` iterator that emits the Instruction stream for a +given piece of Python code. The various display tools in the :mod:`dis` +module have been updated to be based on these new components. + +The new :class:`dis.Bytecode` class provides an object-oriented API for +inspecting bytecode, both in human-readable form and for iterating over +instructions. + +(Contributed by Nick Coghlan, Ryan Kelly and Thomas Kluyver in :issue:`11816`) + doctest ------- |