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

Glenn Linderman v+python at g.nevcal.com
Thu Mar 4 03:33:21 CET 2010

On approximately 3/3/2010 5:49 PM, came the following characters from the keyboard of Barry Warsaw:

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? -Barry

That's kooky, but not as kooky as my idea. As mentioned elsewhere, timestamps would have to be treated carefully.

In this scenario, the .pyc files would still live in pycache ?
Complete with the foo..pyc naming ?

So one could actually create a "fat .zip" application that could work with a variety of installed Python versions ??? Hmm...

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