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

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Wed Mar 24 13:04:48 CET 2010

Barry Warsaw wrote:

On Mar 22, 2010, at 12:38 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:

Huh? Last time I looked weren't we going to make pycache the default (and eventually only) behavior? We definitely agreed it would be the default in Python 3.2. My recollection is that we agreed it would be the only on-demand way of writing pyc files, but that Python would read a lone .pyc file where the source would be if the source is missing, and that pycompile/compileall would support optional creation of those lone .pyc files.

Yep, that's my recollection as well. I don't recall seeing an update to state that clearly in the PEP go by on the checkins list though :)

Cheers, Nick.

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

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