__pycache__, one more good reason to stck with Python 2?

Stefan Behnel stefan_ml at behnel.de
Tue Jan 18 04:27:54 EST 2011


jmfauth, 18.01.2011 09:58:
> About the caches, I'am just fearing,  they will
> become finally garbage collectors of orphan .pyc files,
> Python has seeded

I can't see how that is supposed to be any different than before. If you 
rename a file without deleting the .pyc file, you will end up with an 
orphaned .pyc file, right now and as it was for the last 21 years. The same 
applies to the new cache directory.

Stefan




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