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Secret Recipes of the Python Ninja
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Secret Recipes of the Python Ninja

by Cody Jackson
May 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
380 pages
9h 37m
English
Packt Publishing
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How to do it...

  1. To create bytecode, simply execute a Python program via python <program>.py.
  2. When running a Python command from the command line, there are a couple of switches that can reduce the size of the compiled bytecode. Be aware that some programs may expect the statements that are removed from the following examples to function correctly, so only use them if you know what to expect.

-O removes assert statements from the compiled code. These statements provide some debugging help when testing the program, but generally aren't required for production code.

-OO removes both assert and __doc__ strings for even more size reduction.

  1. Loading programs from bytecode into memory is faster than with source code, but actual program execution ...
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