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

[Skip Montanaro]

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

I think this view is a bit extreme.  On the sysmtes I have at hand, there
are plenty of binary files in /etc, put there for purposes similar to
Python's byte compilation - performance improvement.  The example that comes
most readily to my mind is sendmail.  You fiddle /etc/mail/access and
sendmail "compiles" it into a Berkeley DB hash file.

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