[Python-Dev] Re: [Python-checkins] python/dist/src/Python compile.c, 2.311, 2.312

[Guido van Rossum]

> Log Message:
> Don't intern the filename of a file being compiled.
> Hard to believe it ever helped anything, and it hurts finding reference
> leaks.

The intention was to introduce sharing of the filename object between
code objects compiled from the same file (remember that every method
is a separate code object).

But I believe the sharing won't happen when the code is loaded from a
bytecoded file instead, so it is indeed wasted efficiency.

Good catch.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)