From: Tim Peters <tim.peters@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 05:12:08 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Comments.
X-Git-Tag: v2.3c1~2244
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=81098ac1c8c88f9f1dcf7511555d2ad1f7124575;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

Comments.
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diff --git a/Lib/pickletools.py b/Lib/pickletools.py
index a2ba09db2da3..d41bada04242 100644
--- a/Lib/pickletools.py
+++ b/Lib/pickletools.py
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ text mode pickles, and sometimes faster too; e.g., BININT represents a 4-byte
 int as 4 bytes following the opcode, which is cheaper to unpickle than the
 (perhaps) 11-character decimal string attached to INT.  Protocol 1 also added
 a number of opcodes that operate on many stack elements at once (like APPENDS
-and SETITEMS).
+and SETITEMS), and "shortcut" opcodes (like EMPTY_DICT and EMPTY_TUPLE).
 
 The third major set of additions came in Python 2.3, and is called "protocol
 2".  This added:
@@ -1148,6 +1148,8 @@ opcodes = [
 
       Stack before:  ... pylist anyobject
       Stack after:   ... pylist+[anyobject]
+
+      although pylist is really extended in-place.
       """),
 
     I(name='APPENDS',
@@ -1160,6 +1162,8 @@ opcodes = [
 
       Stack before:  ... pylist markobject stackslice
       Stack after:   ... pylist+stackslice
+
+      although pylist is really extended in-place.
       """),
 
     I(name='LIST',