STINNER Victor added the comment:
> Maybe the compiler should emit a warning to say that the code doesn't make
> sense at all and is ignored?
Oh ok, now I recall a similar issue that I posted 3 years ago: issue #17516,
"Dead code should be removed".
Example of suspicious code:
def func():
func2(),
func() calls func2() and then create a tuple of 1 item with the func2() result.
See my changeset 33bdd0a985b9 for examples in the Python source code. The
parser or compiler should maybe help to developer to catch such strange code :-)
In some cases, the code really contains code explicitly dead:
def test_func():
return
do_real_stuff()
do_real_stuff() is never called. Maybe it was a deliberate choice, maybe it was
a mistake in a very old code base, bug introduced after multiple refactoring,
and high turn over in a team? Again, we should emit a warning on such case?
Hum, these warnings have a larger scope than this specific issue (don't emit
LOAD_CONST for constants in expressions).
See also the related thread on python-dev for the specific case of triple
quoted strings ("""string"""):
https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2013-March/124925.html
It was admitted that it's a convenient way to insert a comment and it must not
emit a warning (at least, not by default?)
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