[Python-ideas] disabling .pyc and .pyo files

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Thu Dec 10 06:04:31 CET 2009


> When changing the bytecode sequence produced by the CPython compiler,
> it would be useful to make sure that a module is being compiled from
> scratch (and hence using the new version of the compiler) instead of
> reusing older bytecode from a .pyc file. You might say that we should
> simply increase the magic number with each iteration,

Or simply "rm -f `find -name *.pyc`" :-)





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