On 28 May 2013 04:18, Dave Angel <da...@davea.name> wrote: > On 05/28/2013 07:02 AM, Jim Mooney wrote:
> Alan and Devin already gave more specifics, but to repeat, > > import dis > > dis.dis(myfunction) > > will disassemble one function. I think authors miss a didactic opportunity by not using bytecode as a teaching tool now and then, since it's easily explained, at least for basic statements. Some concepts seem hard to get across in English but are obvious when you actually see what they do, step-by-step. Not true for everything for course, but for some things. I guess it has to do with sales. If someone new to any programming opens a Python book to buy and sees all these prettily laid-out Python statements that look almost like natural language, only more ordered, but then sees a page of bytecode, they'd probably drop the book and run ;') Jim _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
