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| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/tut/tut.tex | 9 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Modules/main.c | 3 |
2 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/tut/tut.tex b/Doc/tut/tut.tex index f647aed..71d2973 100644 --- a/Doc/tut/tut.tex +++ b/Doc/tut/tut.tex @@ -1926,6 +1926,15 @@ files are ignored and \code{.py} files are compiled to optimized bytecode. \item +Passing two \code{-O} flags to the Python interpreter (\code{-OO}) +will cause the bytecode compiler to perform optimizations that could +in some rare cases result in malfunctioning programs. Currently only +\code{__doc__} strings are removed from the bytecode, resulting in more +compact \file{.pyo} files. Since some programs may rely on having +these available, you should only use this option if you know what +you're doing. + +\item A program doesn't run any faster when it is read from a \file{.pyc} or \file{.pyo} file than when it is read from a \file{.py} file; the only thing that's faster about \file{.pyc} or \file{.pyo} diff --git a/Modules/main.c b/Modules/main.c index 36b2be9..556a67a 100644 --- a/Modules/main.c +++ b/Modules/main.c @@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ static int orig_argc; /* Short usage message (with %s for argv0) */ static char *usage_line = -"usage: %s [-d] [-i] [-O] [-S] [-u] [-v] [-x] [-X] [-c cmd | file | -] [arg] ...\n"; +"usage: %s [option] ... [-c cmd | file | -] [arg] ...\n"; /* Long usage message, split into parts < 512 bytes */ static char *usage_top = "\ @@ -69,6 +69,7 @@ Options and arguments (and corresponding environment variables):\n\ -i : inspect interactively after running script, (also PYTHONINSPECT=x)\n\ and force prompts, even if stdin does not appear to be a terminal\n\ -O : optimize generated bytecode (a tad; also PYTHONOPTIMIZE=x)\n\ +-OO : remove doc-strings in addition to the -O optimizations\n\ -S : don't imply 'import site' on initialization\n\ -t : issue warnings about inconsistent tab usage (-tt: issue errors)\n\ "; |