[Python-Dev] __file__ and bytecode-only

[Barry Warsaw]

On Mar 04, 2010, at 11:34 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote:

>The remaining open question to my mind is whether or not there should be
>a -X option to control the bytecode generation. E.g.:
>
>-Xcache_bytecode=no (don't write bytecode files at all)

-B and $PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE will still be supported and serve this use
case.

>-Xcache_bytecode=file (write a classic "foo.pyc" file)
>-Xcache_bytecode=dir (write to the "__pycache__" directory)
>
>With cache_bytecode=dir being the default for future releases.

I believe we've decided /not/ to support creation of bytecode-only
distributions out of the box.

-Barry
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