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

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Sun Mar 14 22:43:12 CET 2010

R. David Murray wrote:

On Sun, 14 Mar 2010 12:59:50 -0000, Jon Ribbens <jon+python-dev at unequivocal.co.uk> wrote:

Sorry if I missed it, but why on earth is the bytecode directory pycache and not .pycache? (Or indeed anything else that starts with a '.') Surely this is a classic ideal use case for a "hidden" directory? You did miss it. Perhaps a link to the discussion should be added to the PEP, or a summary of it. If I remember correctly the BDFL even weighed in on this point.

He did (in favour of keeping the directory visible).

Here's one reference (although not the main one): http://osdir.com/ml/python-dev/2010-02/msg00114.html

My Google-fu is failing me, so I don't have a link to the other part of the thread that I refer to in that message.

Cheers, Nick.

-- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan at gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia

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