March 2, 2010
4:53 a.m.
On Tue, 2 Mar 2010 11:41:52 am Barry Warsaw wrote:
After PEP 3147 is implemented, and the default, you'll have to byte-compile the files, then find the pycs in the __pycache__ directory, move them up a level and rename them. Then of course remove the .py files.
It's not insurmountable of course, I think if we support pyc-only imports, people are rightly going to want us to write and support the tool to create those imports.
Surely that's a job for a tiny Python script, or even a shell script? It doesn't sound hard, not from the description given. I imagine there will be recipes on ActiveState quite quickly, and if there isn't, that would be good evidence that demand for the feature is low. -- Steven D'Aprano