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

[jmfauth]

On Jan 18, 6:07 am, Terry Reedy <tjre... at udel.edu> wrote:
> ...
> This is the 21-year-old behavior now changed.
> ...


Yes, you summarized the situation very well. The way of
working has changed and probably more deeply that one
may think.

It is now practically impossible to launch a Python
application via a .pyc file. (For the fun, try to add
the "parent directory" of a cached file to the sys.path).

About the caches, I'am just fearing,  they will
become finally garbage collectors of orphan .pyc files,
Python has seed/seeded(?). The .pyc files may not be
very pleasant, but at least you can use them and you
have that "feeling" of their existence.
I my "computer experience", once you start to cache/hide
something for simplicity, the problems start.

May be it a good move for Python, I do not feel very
comfortable with all this stuff.