On 6/24/2010 9:18 PM, Greg Ewing wrote:
Scott Dial wrote:
But the only motivation for doing this with .pyc files is that the .py files are able to be shared,
In an application made up of a mixture of pure Python and extension modules, the .py files are able to be shared too. Seems to me that a similar motivation exists here as well. Not exactly the same, but closely related.
If I recall Barry's motivation correctly, the PEP was intended to simplify the installation of packages for multiple versions of Python, although the PEP states that in a less direct way. In the case of pure-python packages, this is merely about avoiding .pyc collisions. But, in the case of packages with .so files, I fail to see how this is simpler (in face, I believe it to be more complicated). So, I am not sure the PEP supports this feature being proposed (since it makes no mention of .so files), and more importantly, I am not sure it actually makes anything better for anyone (still requires multiple compilations and un/install gymnastics). -- Scott Dial scott@scottdial.com scodial@cs.indiana.edu