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Diffstat (limited to 'Include/code.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | Include/code.h | 7 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Include/code.h b/Include/code.h index 7c7e5bf8dc..ff2b97efe9 100644 --- a/Include/code.h +++ b/Include/code.h @@ -21,7 +21,12 @@ typedef struct { PyObject *co_varnames; /* tuple of strings (local variable names) */ PyObject *co_freevars; /* tuple of strings (free variable names) */ PyObject *co_cellvars; /* tuple of strings (cell variable names) */ - /* The rest doesn't count for hash or comparisons */ + /* The rest aren't used in either hash or comparisons, except for + co_name (used in both) and co_firstlineno (used only in + comparisons). This is done to preserve the name and line number + for tracebacks and debuggers; otherwise, constant de-duplication + would collapse identical functions/lambdas defined on different lines. + */ unsigned char *co_cell2arg; /* Maps cell vars which are arguments. */ PyObject *co_filename; /* unicode (where it was loaded from) */ PyObject *co_name; /* unicode (name, for reference) */ |