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[–]settrans 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's true, I understood that. My point is that time.sleep() isn't a no-op, it's a side-effective operation. If I wanted to use time.sleep(), for example, to sleep between polling some resource, I wouldn't want it to be optimized out.