Jan. 10, 2003
9:34 p.m.
What about PEP 301 and an import hook? Couldn't a custom import hook be written up that didn't output a .py file? I would think it could be as simple as finding the file, opening it, and then compiling it as a module and inserting it directly into ``sys.modules``. Wouldn't that circumvent any .py(c|o) writing?
I think using an import hook to prevent writing .pyc files is way too much work. You can't use the built-in code because that *does* write the .pyc files, so you have to redo all the work that the standard hook does. --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)