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

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Tue Nov 7 00:38:57 CET 2006

Greg Ewing schrieb:

I think I'd be happy with having to do that explicitly. I expect the vast majority of Python programs don't need to track changes to the set of importable modules during execution. The exceptions would be things like IDEs, and they could do a cache flush before reloading a module, etc.

That would be a change in behavior, of course.

Currently, you can put a file on disk and import it immediately; that will stop working. I'm pretty sure that there are a number of applications that rely on this specific detail of the current implementation (and not only IDEs).

It still might be worthwhile to make such a change, but I'd like to see practical advantages demonstrated first.

Regards, Martin

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