Here's a simple patch to optimize away constant boolean conjunctions/disjunctions. for example:

def foo():
    if 1 and 0:
        print("hi")

now disassembles into:
  7           0 LOAD_CONST               0 (None) 
              3 RETURN_VALUE 

while I realize more general techniques for achieving this have been proposed (ie http://bugs.python.org/issue1346238), this is a very simple, self-contained patch.