[Python-Dev] PEP 3147: PYC Repository Directories

[Eric Smith]

Glenn Linderman wrote:
> On approximately 1/30/2010 4:00 PM, came the following characters from 
> the keyboard of Barry Warsaw:
>> When the Python executable is given a `-R` flag, or the environment
>> variable `$PYTHONPYR` is set, then Python will create a `foo.pyr`
>> directory and write a `pyc` file to that directory with the hexlified
>> magic number as the base name.
>>    
> 
> After the discussion so far, my opinion is that if the source directory 
> contains an appropriate python repositiory directory [1], and the 
> version of Python implements PEP 3147, that there should be no need for 
> -R or $PYTHONPYR to exist, but that such versions of Python would 
> simply, and always look in the python repository directory for binaries.

How would the python repository directory ever get created?