[Python-Dev] __pycache__ creation

[R. David Murray]

On Mon, 22 Mar 2010 18:15:01 -0000, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
> 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.

Or even as simple as 'mkdir __pycache__', if you are working in your
own library and don't want .pyc clutter.

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