org.python.core

## Interface ContainsPyBytecode

-     public interface ContainsPyBytecode

  Jython stores Python-Bytecode of methods and functions that exceed JVM method-size restrictions in String literals. While Java supports rather long strings, constrained only by int-addressing of arrays, it supports only up to 65535 characters in literals (not sure how escape-sequences are counted). To circumvent this limitation, the code is automatically splitted into several literals with the following naming-scheme. - The marker-interface 'ContainsPyBytecode' indicates that a class contains (static final) literals of the following scheme: - a prefix of '___' indicates a bytecode-containing string literal - a number indicating the number of parts follows - '0_' indicates that no splitting occurred - otherwise another number follows, naming the index of the literal - indexing starts at 0 Examples: ___0_method1 contains bytecode for method1 ___2_0_method2 contains first part of method2's bytecode ___2_1_method2 contains second part of method2's bytecode Note that this approach is provisional. In future, Jython might contain the bytecode directly as bytecode-objects. The current approach was feasible with much less complicated JVM bytecode-manipulation, but needs special treatment after class-loading. In a future approach this interface might be removed.

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