[Python-Dev] pycache creation (original) (raw)
Henning von Bargen henning.vonbargen at arcor.de
Tue Mar 23 21:27:47 CET 2010
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Antoine Pitrou wrote:
or if a user installs by dragging into site-packages instead of using an installer?
Well... do people actually do this?
Why not?
And it is also common to just set the PYTHONPATH environment variable instead of using setup.py install or copy the files to the lib/site-packages directory.
I prefer it that way because it gives a clean separation between standard library files and application specific files. For example, if I want to use another Python version, I can just delete the python26 directory because I know it doesn't contain any application-specific code, just the standard library files.
Considering the complexity, the risks and the benefit of the whole pycache thingie, I'm -1...
Henning
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