[Python-Dev] __file__ and bytecode-only

[Glenn Linderman]

On approximately 3/3/2010 5:49 PM, came the following characters from 
the keyboard of Barry Warsaw:
> On Mar 03, 2010, at 07:37 PM, Jim Jewett wrote:
>    
>> >I understand the need to ship without source -- but why does that
>> >require supporting .pyc (or .pyo) -only?
>> >
>> >Couldn't vendors just replace the real .py files with empty files?
>>      
> Yes, I think that's a possibility.  What would people think about that?
>
> -Barry
>    

That's kooky, but not as kooky as my idea.  As mentioned elsewhere, 
timestamps would have to be treated carefully.

In this scenario, the .pyc files would still live in __pycache__ ?  
Complete with the foo.<token>.pyc naming ?

So one could actually create a "fat .zip" application that could work 
with a variety of installed Python versions ???  Hmm...

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