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

[Thomas Kluyver]

Thomas Kluyver added the comment:

I've added docs and tests, and split the changes to test_peepholer into a separate patch.

I haven't re-exposed details of the code object as attributes of Bytecode instances, because they're already available as e.g. bytecode.codeobj.co_names . I think it would be more confusing than useful to offer the same values in two places, though I'm open to discussion on this.

I've re-organised the dis module docs a bit. I've put Bytecode at the top, as I think it's a more intuitive API than the functions, which have somewhat counter-intuitive names due to the module's history.

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Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file29694/dis_api3.diff

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