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

[Martin v. Löwis]

Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> writes:

> Sorry, I *still* don't understand why shipping an mm_cfg.pyc (that's
> ignored because mm_cfg.py is newer) is a problem.  Or is Debian
> shipping only .pyc files?

If you ship it, and the user modifies it, the .pyc file will be
outdated, and regenerated the next time mailman is run. Right?  This
is a problem in itself - python *will* try to write a .pyc file, even
if one was originally distributed.

Furthermore, mm_cfg is located in /etc/mailman/mm_cfg.py. I believe,
as a policy, you should not have binary files in /etc.

Regards,
Martin