[Python-Dev] .pyc location?

[Georg Brandl]

Andreas Raab schrieb:
> Hi -
> 
> I'm having a few problems with our (embedded) Python interpreter trying 
> to write .pyc files in the installation of our product (which actually 
> sometimes works and sometimes doesn't depending on OS and paranoia level 
> involved). This can give raise to a few very confusing situations and 
> I'd like to be able to specify an explicit location for the .pyc files. 
> Ideally, this would be a cache location where all .pyc files are created 
> under an hashed (MD5 or similar) name of the original source file so 
> that the cache location can be used for all of the compiled Python files.
> 
> While googling this issue, I noticed that the status of PEP 304 says 
> "withdrawn" but since most of the discussion around it seems to be a 
> couple of years old, I thought I'd ask if anyone has done something in 
> this area recently. If not, a pointer to the place which manages these 
> mappings (or a starting point for further digging) would be greatly welcome.

There is this issue: http://bugs.python.org/issue602345 which contains a
patch that adds a Python option to not write .pyc files at all. As far as
I know, there is no further work in the direction of PEP 304.

Georg

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