[Python-Dev] disable writing .py[co]

[Skip Montanaro]

    Michael> The idea of writing .pycs to a world writable area (say /tmp)
    Michael> on a multi-user system sounds like a Bad Thing.

As I mentioned in my original note, you'd prepend PYCROOT to the .py file
and append 'c' to create a filename for the .pyc file.  If socket.py was
found in /usr/lib/python2.3/socket.py and PYCROOT was set to /tmp, you'd try
to read from/write to /tmp/usr/lib/python2.3/socket.pyc.  The only
requirement on PYCROOT would be that /tmp would have to exist.  The user
wouldn't be responsible for creating the full directory tree underneath
/tmp.

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