[issue11816] Refactor the dis module to provide better building blocks for bytecode analysis

[Nick Coghlan]

Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> added the comment:

'Op' is just an abbreviation of 'operation'. So 'operation code' becomes 'opcode' and 'operation information' becomes 'opinfo'. The fact that it comes for the 'dis' module gives the context that the *kind* of operation we're talking about is a Python byte code instruction.

When people are hacking on bytecode in the future, they'll likely end up using get_opinfo() a fair bit, so swapping the succinct 'opinfo' for the verbose 'bytecode_instruction' strikes me as a poor trade-off.

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