Why does the "dis" module print?
Michael Hudson
mwh at python.net
Mon Aug 12 12:03:14 EDT 2002
tweedgeezer at hotmail.com (Jeremy Fincher) writes:
> It seems that it would be a lot easier to pull information out of
> the output of the dis.dis function if, instead of printing its
> results, it returned a list of the disassembled bytecodes. Printing
> bytecodes from a returned list is trivial; making a list from the
> printed bytecodes is much less so. Why does dis print instead of
> returning a list of bytecodes?
Because noone ever expected dis.dis to be used programmatically? What
do you want to do with it?
Cheers,
M.
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