Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 3147: PYC Repository Directories (original) (raw)

Whoa. This thread already exploded. I'm picking this message to respond to because it reflects my own view after reading the PEP.

On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 4:13 AM, Hanno Schlichting ha...@hannosch.eu wrote:

On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 1:03 PM, Simon Cross hodgestar+python...@gmail.com wrote:

I don't know whether I in favour of using a single pyr folder or not but if a single folder is used I'd definitely prefer the folder to be called pyr rather than .pyr.

Exactly what I would prefer. I worry that having many small directories is a fairly poor use of the filesystem. A quick scan of /usr/local/lib/python3.2 on my Linux box reveals 1163 .py files but only 57 directories).

Do you have any specific reason for that?

Using the leading dot notation is an established pattern to hide non-essential information from directory views. What makes this non-applicable in this situation and a custom Python notation better?

Because we don't want to completely hide the pyc files. Also the dot naming convention is somewhat platform-specific.

FWIW in Python 3, the file variable always points to the .py source filename. I agreed with Georg that there ought to be an API for finding the pyc file for a module. This could be a small addition to the PEP.

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