[Python-Dev] PEP 3147 ready for pronouncement and merging

[Guido van Rossum]

Thanks for all the changes!

On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 4:00 PM, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:
> On Apr 15, 2010, at 08:01 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
>>Hm. I wish there was a way to find out whether the bytecode (or
>>whatever) actually *was* read from this file. __file__ in Python 2
>>supports this (though not in Python 3).
>
> Do you have a use case for that?  It might be interesting to know, but I can't
> think of a good way to infer that from __file__ and __cached__, or of a good
> way to expose that on module objects.   Of course, it would be totally Python
> implementation dependent too.

The only use case I can think of is a unit test that would indirectly
assess that bytecode was (or wasn't) read in specific conditions. You
can safely ignore this use case.

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--Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)