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Barry Warsaw barry at python.org
Thu Mar 4 00:04:51 CET 2010

On Mar 02, 2010, at 09:06 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:

(1) What happens if the cache directory doesn't exist and the enclosing directory is unwriteable, or if it does exist, but is unreadable?

I expect that the byte code files will simply not be created, and everything will continue without them.

s/cache/pycache

but yes, just as it does today.

(2) Presumably this only effects imports, not running python source code as a script. If I do this:

python myscript.py from the shell, I would expect that no cache directory will be created, just like today.

Correct.

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