Disable use of pyc file with no matching py file

Jean-Michel Pichavant jeanmichel at sequans.com
Tue Jan 31 05:26:10 EST 2012


Terry Reedy wrote:
> On 1/30/2012 4:30 PM, Roy Smith wrote:
>> Every so often (typically when refactoring), I'll remove a .py file
>> and forget to remove the corresponding .pyc file.  If I then import
>> the module, python finds the orphaned .pyc and happily imports it.
>> Usually leading to confusing and hard to debug failures.
>>
>> Is there some way to globally tell python, "Never import a .pyc
>> unless the corresponding .py file exits"?
>
> Upgrade to 3.2.
>
No.

JM



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