Message 130586 - Python tracker
> Also, the peephole optimizer was developed before the AST branch was > added to Python. Constant folding more properly belongs at the AST > level, not in the peepholer itself. Our strategy is to move as much > as possible into an AST optimizer and to stop building out the > peephole optimizer. Who is working on this "strategy"? Until someone takes it to task to implement the "correct pattern", I think iterative improvement of the peepholer is a reasonable thing.