Bug 460334

Summary: python -OO not stripping docstrings
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu>
Component: pythonAssignee: James Antill <james.antill>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 9CC: james.antill, jonathansteffan, katzj
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Description Tomeu Vizoso 2008-08-27 16:44:46 UTC 
Description of problem:

python -OO is supposed to generate .pyo files without docstrings, but the files still contain those. This increases significantly the memory usage of big python programs (like OLPC's Sugar).

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

python-2.5.1-26

How reproducible:

Always

Steps to Reproduce:

1. compile a module with docstrings like this: 'python -OO /usr/lib/python2.5/py_compile.py <module_with_docstrings.py>'
  
Actual results:

open the <module_with_docstrings.pyo> generated file and check that it still contains the docstrings

Expected results:

the docstrings are not in the .pyo files

Additional info:

Has been fixed upstream in the following tickets:

http://bugs.python.org/issue1722485
http://bugs.python.org/issue1169
Comment 1 Tomeu Vizoso 2008-08-27 17:00:28 UTC 
Created attachment 315120 [details]
patch from upstream fixes
Comment 2 Tomeu Vizoso 2008-08-27 17:42:55 UTC 
Created attachment 315125 [details]
correct patch
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