-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Ian Bicking wrote: > The one issue I thought would be resolved by not easily allowing > .pyc-only distributions is the case when you rename a file (say > module.py to newmodule.py) and there is a module.pyc laying around, > and you don't get the ImportError you would expect from "import > module" -- and to make it worse everything basically works, except > there's two versions of the module that slowly become different. This > regularly causes problems for me, and those problems would get more > common and obscure if the pyc files were stashed away in a more > invisible location. > > I can't even tell what the current proposal is; maybe this is > resolved? If distributing bytecode required renaming pyc files to .py > as Glenn suggested that would resolve the problem quite nicely from my > perspective. (Frankly I find the whole use case for distributing > bytecodes a bit specious, but whatever.)
The consensus as I recal was that a .pyc file in the main package directory would be importable without a .py file (just as it is today), but that .pyc files in the cache directory would not be importable in the absence of a .py file. Package distributors who wanted to ship bytecode-only distributions would need to arrange to have the .pyc files created "in place' (by disabling the cachedir option) or move them from the cachedir before bundling. Tres. - -- =================================================================== Tres Seaver +1 540-429-0999 tsea...@palladion.com Palladion Software "Excellence by Design" http://palladion.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkuJUFIACgkQ+gerLs4ltQ6pnwCfVmDO8uiP9eSsjJf4ees35xus SEUAn0oKJwv9bGksxcMTHSfBbDV2Ujb7 =Vdpi -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
