Byte Code

• Larry

Why?

some bad reasons

• what’s really going on (but where did you stop)
• hand tuned byte code !@#! (can be broken from one python version to the next)

Example

def gunk(a=1, *args, b=3):
    print(args)
    c = None
    return (a + b, c)

disassemble with the dis library

>>> dis.dis(gunk)

shows the byte code

• opcodes
• big picture
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