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Michael Foord fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk
Sun Feb 28 02:25:38 CET 2010

On 28/02/2010 01:22, Antoine Pitrou wrote:

Le Fri, 26 Feb 2010 14:29:03 -0800, Guido van Rossum a écrit :

Byte-code only wasn't always supported. We added it knowing full well it had all those problems (plus, it locks in the Python version), simply because a certain class of developers won't stop asking for it. Their users are apparently too dumb to decode bytecode but smart enough to read source code, even if they don't understand it, and this knowledge could hurt them. The idea that too much knowledge hurts users doesn't sound very Pythonic to me. As I understand it, the people interested in bytecode-only distributions are commercial companies willing to ease support. Why don't they whip up a specialized importer, and perhaps make it available as a recipe or a PyPI module somewhere? The idea that we should provide built-in support for a stupid (non-)security mechanism sounds insane to me. Finally, the sight of commercial companies not being able to do their work and begging open source projects to do it for them makes me yawn. If you aren't proficient or motivated enough to build your own internal commodities, perhaps you shouldn't do claim to do business at all.

Well if we'd never had this feature this argument would be very strong indeed. On the other hand if we want them to switch to Python 3 - but by the way we cut one of the features you rely on, but don't worry all you have to do is recode it yourself - doesn't make a very convincing argument.

Michael Foord

regards

Antoine.

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