On 31 October 2001, James C. Ahlstrom said:
Did we decide to allow import of *.py?
Here's an idea that would apply to importing *.py whether inside ZIP files or not: if unable to write the .pyc, write a warning to stderr. That'll be useful to people who inadvertently put .py files without .pyc in a ZIP file, and to people who try to import .py files from a directory they can't write to, etc. Now that Python has a warning framework, warnings like unable to write /usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/foo.pyc: permission denied or unable to write /usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/foo.zip/foo.pyc: can't write to ZIP file sound like useful warnings. Greg -- Greg Ward - programmer-at-large gward@python.net http://starship.python.net/~gward/ Save energy: be apathetic.