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Steven D'Aprano steve at pearwood.info
Tue Mar 2 10:53:26 CET 2010

On Tue, 2 Mar 2010 11:41:52 am Barry Warsaw wrote:

After PEP 3147 is implemented, and the default, you'll have to byte-compile the files, then find the pycs in the pycache directory, move them up a level and rename them. Then of course remove the .py files.

It's not insurmountable of course, I think if we support pyc-only imports, people are rightly going to want us to write and support the tool to create those imports.

Surely that's a job for a tiny Python script, or even a shell script? It doesn't sound hard, not from the description given. I imagine there will be recipes on ActiveState quite quickly, and if there isn't, that would be good evidence that demand for the feature is low.

-- Steven D'Aprano

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