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@@ -87,6 +87,13 @@ Prerequisites uses is PLY, which is bundled in ``pycparser/ply``. The current PLY version is 3.10, retrieved from `<http://www.dabeaz.com/ply/>`_ +Note that **pycparser** (and PLY) uses docstrings for grammar specifications. +Python installations that strip docstrings (such as when using the Python +``-OO`` option) will fail to instantiate and use **pycparser**. You can try to +work around this problem by making sure the PLY parsing tables are pre-generated +in normal mode; this isn't an officially supported/tested mode of operation, +though. + Installation process -------------------- |