Compiling without docstrings only affects compiled functions.  (Is this option unix only, for servers?)  This caused failures in 6 /test test functions.  Running with -00 only affects python functions.  It causes failure in 19 test function on Windows.  For IDLE, it causes many more failures than the configuration change. 

__doc__ == '' might have been less of a nuisance than == None, but too late to change that glocally now, although it can be a local solution.