On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 16:37, Jim Jewett <jimjjewett@gmail.com> wrote:
I understand the need to ship without source -- but why does that require supporting .pyc (or .pyo) -only?
Couldn't vendors just replace the real .py files with empty files?
Because if someone screws up the mod time on the source files the .pyc files will get recreated silently. -Brett
Then no one would need the extra stat call, and no one would be bitten by orphaned .pyc files after a rename.
[Yes, zips could still allow unmatched names; yes, it would be helpful if a tool were available to sync the last-modification time; yes a deprecation release should still be needed.]
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