[Python-Dev] PEP 3147, pycache directories and umask (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Wed Mar 24 22:13:52 CET 2010

Isaac Morland wrote:

the benefit to me and to Greg and to others writing .py code is that our directories will contain *.py and pycache, rather than *.py and *.pyc. So it will be much easier to see what is actually there.

Yes. When using MacOSX I do most of my work using the Finder's column view. With two windows open one above the other, there's room for about a dozen files to be seen at once. There's no way to filter the view or sort by anything other than name, so with the current .pyc scheme, half of that valuable screen space is wasted.

-- Greg

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