Message 310012 - Python tracker (original) (raw)

On Jan 15, 2018, at 11:31, Brett Cannon <report@bugs.python.org> wrote:

1. SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH acts as an environment variable flag to forcibly generate hash-based .pyc files with the check_source bit set in py_compile and compileall
2. SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH is used to specifically set the timestamp in .pyc files in py_compile and compileall

I’d suggest that if SDE is set to an integer, that is used as the timestamp. If it’s set to a special symbol (e.g. ‘hash’) then the hash is used. I’m not volunteering to write the code though. :)