I removed this from the list a couple of weeks ago to make it show up in the diff, to make sure people are aware when the instruction flags change.

Agreed, let’s keep it out of the list for. This can catch accidental mistakes, or remind people of the consequences of intentional changes.

Maybe we should leave it there commented out with an explanation so this won't come up again.

Hm, really? I'm not sure I agree. This was prompted by the diff view of my recent PR, where it just adds noise.

We already hide other files with lists of tokens, keywords, and standard library module names that are arguably more important and more human-readable than this one. And people can still view them, GitHub just collapses them by default.

If we're this concerned about setting the correct flags, maybe we should just write some sort of test instead?

What test would you write?

Well, I'm not really sure what we're trying to protect against here. My understanding is that the flags are now generated automatically by analyzing the DSL's C code. If there's a bug somewhere, it's probably in the static analysis of the code, not the code itself (if I add a GETLOCAL to something, then I definitely want it to set the has "local" flag, ditto for JUMPBY and the "jump" flag).

So maybe tests for InstructionFlags.fromInstruction with some expected inputs and outputs? Or some error-checking in the generator that incompatible flag combinations (like "local" and "jump", or "const" without "oparg") don't happen?

We could have a few of those. They would protect us from regressions when we change the static analysis code, or when we change the implementation of a bytecode that happens to be tested. But when you add a new bytecode, don't you want to look at that flags and see that they make sense?

(I edited my comment above, adding that maybe the flags class could do some sanity checks on the flag combination.)

But honestly I thought this would be uncontroversial. If you're getting value from the status quo, I can let it go. I just got kind of tired of scrolling past this file in PRs.