On Mar 22, 2010, at 09:47 PM, Martin v. Löwis wrote: >Therefore, I'm in favor of having it on by default. If certain use cases >make it problematic (e.g. Apache creating directories which you then >cannot delete), there should be a way to turn it *off*. Perhaps the >existing machinery to turn of byte code generation at all might be >sufficient.
That's what I'm thinking. Of course it will always be possible to run compileall and get the __pycache__ directories pre-created, presumably with the right umask. >As for the original question (funny umasks), I think my proposal is >"tough luck". Don't try to be super-smart; as Antoine explains, it gets >worse, not better. If the user has arranged that Python will create >unusable directories, the user better changes his setup. I completely agree; +1 -Barry
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