🔧 The Secret Life of Python: Bytecode Secrets - What Python Really Runs

Timothy stared at his terminal in disbelief. "Margaret, I just learned about the dis module and tried it on the simplest function I could write. Look at this:"



import dis

def add_numbers(a, b):
return a + b

dis.dis(add_numbers)






Output:



2 0 LOAD_FAST 0 (a)
2 LOAD_FAST 1 (b)
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