[Python-Dev] DRAFT: python-dev summary for 2006-11-01 to 2006-11-15 (original) (raw)

Armin Rigo arigo at tunes.org
Thu Nov 23 12:45:09 CET 2006

Hi Steven,

On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 11:48:44PM -0700, Steven Bethard wrote:

(... pyc files ...) For people wanting to ship just bytecode, the cached .pyc files could be renamed to .py files and then those could be shipped and imported.

Yuk! Not renamed to .py files. Distributing .py files that are actually bytecode looks like a new funny way to create confusion. No, I was half-heartedly musing about introducing Yet Another file extension (.pyc for caching and .pyX for importable bytecode, or possibly the other way around).

A bientot,

Armin

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