[Python-Dev] Re: PEP 282 comments

[Jeremy Hylton]

>>>>> "A" == aahz  <aahz@pythoncraft.com> writes:

  A> Hrm.  Based on previous comments, particularly from the Timbot,
  A> I'm wondering whether the linkage between !debugging and
  A> optimizing is too tight in Python, and whether constructs like
  A> this should be deprecated.  Seems to me that there will
  A> definitely be times you want debugging output when you're running
  A> -O.

There definitely are times when we want debugging outputs when running
with -O, but we live with restarting the server in those cases.  There
is such a big performance benefit to not even compiling the code when
-O is enabled.

Jeremy