On Thursday, November 17, 2016 at 8:35:15 PM UTC-5, BartC wrote: > That Py2's dis.dis() accepts a string argument but treats it as compiled > byte-code sounds like a bug. Unless it's a feature.
In Python 2, plain-old strings are byte-strings, so there's no way for dis.dis to distinguish between a string literal full of code, and a byte-string full of bytecode. So it's not a bug, and it also is not a feature. It just is. --Ned. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
