On a 384 processor job we have once again encountered that old question of corrupted .pyc files, sometimes resulting in an error, sometimes in a silent wrong behavior later. I know this was allegedly fixed previously but it looks like it doesn't really work. We lost a couple of weeks work this time.
Didn't we talk about an option to not make pyc files? I can't seem to find it. (We totally don't care about the cost of imports. The documentation mentions "ihooks" but not the module itself. I know that importing has been an area of create turmoil so I don't really know where to look.) I couldn't even find the list of command-line options for Python itself except a mention of -c in the tutorial. Any pointers would be appreciated.
I don't think we have such an option, but it's a good idea. If you submit a patch, we'll add it. --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)