[Python-Dev] file and bytecode-only (original) (raw)

Barry Warsaw barry at python.org
Thu Mar 4 02:49:23 CET 2010

On Mar 03, 2010, at 07:37 PM, Jim Jewett wrote:

I understand the need to ship without source -- but why does that require supporting .pyc (or .pyo) -only?

Couldn't vendors just replace the real .py files with empty files?

Yes, I think that's a possibility. What would people think about that?

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