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

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Thu Mar 4 04🔞09 CET 2010

Barry Warsaw wrote:

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

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?

Seems like a perverse thing to have to do to me.

Also a bit fragile, since you would have to make sure that the empty .py files were dated older than the .pyc files and stayed that way, lest Python try to recompile them and wipe out your code.

You would also have to be careful to build installers that didn't recompile .py files on installation. (Haven't had much experience building installers using distutils, so I'm not sure how much of a problem that would be.)

-- Greg

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