[Python-Dev] __pycache__ creation

[Antoine Pitrou]

Isaac Morland <ijmorlan <at> uwaterloo.ca> writes:
> 
> > IMO, all these issues militate for putting __pycache__ creation out of
> > the interpreter core, and in the hands of third-party package-time/
> > install-time tools (or distutils).
> 
> Speaking only for myself, but really for anybody who likes tidy source 
> directories, I hope some version of the __pycache__ proposal becomes part 
> of standard Python, by which I ideally mean it's enabled by default but if 
> that is just not a good idea then at most it should be required to set a 
> command-line option to get this feature.

This doesn't contradict by my proposal.

What I am proposing is that the creation of __pycache__ /directories/ be put
outside of the core. It can be part of distutils, or of a separate module, or
delegated to third-party tools. It could even be as simple as
"python -m compileall --pycache", if someone implements it.

Creation of the __pycache__ /contents/ (files inside the directory) would still
be part of core Python, but only if the directory exists and is writable by the
current process.

Regards

Antoine.