Re: why does dead code costs time?

From	Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu>
Subject	Re: why does dead code costs time?
Date	2012-12-05 15:41 -0500
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On 12/5/2012 1:24 PM, Bruno Dupuis wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 05, 2012 at 10:59:26AM -0700, Ian Kelly wrote:
>> On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 10:34 AM, Steven D'Aprano
>> <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> wrote:
>>> The difference is almost certain between the LOAD_CONST and the
>>> LOAD_GLOBAL.
>>>
>>> As to *why* there is such a difference, I believe that's a leftover from
>>> early Python days when None was not a keyword and could be reassigned.
>>
>> I think this should even be considered a bug, not just a missing
>> optimization.  Consider:
>
> This is definitely a bug
>
>>>>> globals()['None'] = 42
>>>>> def f(x):
>> ...     return None
>> ...     print(x)
>> ...
>>>>> f('test')
>> 42
>
> This one is pretty scary
>
> The difference between `return None` and `return` leads to inconsistency and
> is in contradiction with the specs, AFAIK. I'm glad we pointed this out.

You did not specify version, but I confirmed in 3.3.0. Please open a 
tracker issue.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy

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why does dead code costs time? Bruno Dupuis <python.ml.bruno.dupuis@lisael.org> - 2012-12-05 16:46 +0100
  Re: why does dead code costs time? Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2012-12-05 16:15 +0000
    Re: why does dead code costs time? Bruno Dupuis <python.ml.bruno.dupuis@lisael.org> - 2012-12-05 17:40 +0100
      Re: why does dead code costs time? Ramchandra Apte <maniandram01@gmail.com> - 2012-12-09 06:11 -0800
        Re: why does dead code costs time? Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-12-09 16:47 +0000
          Re: why does dead code costs time? Ramchandra Apte <maniandram01@gmail.com> - 2012-12-12 21:23 -0800
            Re: why does dead code costs time? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-12-13 06:01 +0000
              Re: why does dead code costs time? rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2012-12-12 22:27 -0800
                Re: why does dead code costs time? Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au> - 2012-12-13 17:51 +1100
                Re: why does dead code costs time? rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2012-12-12 22:59 -0800
                Re: why does dead code costs time? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-12-13 18:03 +1100
          Re: why does dead code costs time? Ramchandra Apte <maniandram01@gmail.com> - 2012-12-12 21:23 -0800
    Re: why does dead code costs time? Bruno Dupuis <python.ml.bruno.dupuis@lisael.org> - 2012-12-05 18:19 +0100
      Re: why does dead code costs time? Tim Roberts <timr@probo.com> - 2012-12-05 21:20 -0800
  Re: why does dead code costs time? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-12-05 17:34 +0000
    Re: why does dead code costs time? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-12-05 17:39 +0000
    Re: why does dead code costs time? Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2012-12-05 10:59 -0700
    Re: why does dead code costs time? Bruno Dupuis <python.ml.bruno.dupuis@lisael.org> - 2012-12-05 19:24 +0100
    Re: why does dead code costs time? Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2012-12-05 15:41 -0500
    Re: why does dead code costs time? Chris Kaynor <ckaynor@zindagigames.com> - 2012-12-05 12:49 -0800
    Re: why does dead code costs time? Bruno Dupuis <python.ml.bruno.dupuis@lisael.org> - 2012-12-05 21:50 +0100
    Re: why does dead code costs time? Bruno Dupuis <python.ml.bruno.dupuis@lisael.org> - 2012-12-05 22:58 +0100

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