[Python-Dev] Importing .pyc in -O mode and vice versa (original) (raw)

Oleg Broytmann phd at phd.pp.ru
Sat Nov 4 17:47:37 CET 2006

On Sat, Nov 04, 2006 at 04:47:37PM +0100, "Martin v. L?wis" wrote:

Patch #1346572 proposes to also search for .pyc when OptimizeFlag is set, and for .pyo when it is not set. The author argues this is for consistency, as the zipimporter already does that.

This reasoning is somewhat flawed, of course: to achieve consistency, one could also change the zipimporter instead. However, I find the proposed behaviour reasonable: Python already automatically imports the .pyc file if .py is not given and vice versa. So why not look for .pyo if the .pyc file is not present? What do you think?

+1 from me.

Oleg.

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