[Python-Dev] pycache creation (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Mon Mar 22 19:15:01 CET 2010

Isaac Morland <ijmorlan uwaterloo.ca> writes:

> IMO, all these issues militate for putting pycache creation out of > the interpreter core, and in the hands of third-party package-time/ > install-time tools (or distutils). Speaking only for myself, but really for anybody who likes tidy source directories, I hope some version of the pycache proposal becomes part of standard Python, by which I ideally mean it's enabled by default but if that is just not a good idea then at most it should be required to set a command-line option to get this feature.

This doesn't contradict by my proposal.

What I am proposing is that the creation of pycache /directories/ be put outside of the core. It can be part of distutils, or of a separate module, or delegated to third-party tools. It could even be as simple as "python -m compileall --pycache", if someone implements it.

Creation of the pycache /contents/ (files inside the directory) would still be part of core Python, but only if the directory exists and is writable by the current process.

Regards

Antoine.

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