[issue14077] sporadic test_multiprocessing failure

[Charles-François Natali]

Charles-François Natali <neologix at free.fr> added the comment:

> But is there still a reason to use id(path) then?

IIRC, the reason is to avoid having a stale pyc file indefinitely in
case of crash:
if we always used, let's say, path + '.tmp', if the process crashes
before the rename, then all subsequent attempts to write the bytecode
will fail because of the stale temporary file.

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