On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 07:29:24PM +0200, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > On ke, 2007-01-03 at 18:14 +0100, Wouter van Heyst wrote: > > Pierre already mentioned that is not the problem, but I'd like to > > explicitly state that that would make it impossible to run applications > > if you only have the .pyc files, a valid use-case, although not > > something that will arise from Debian packages. > > While we're listing personal preferences, I'm firmly in the camp that > belives Python should create .py[co] files only when explicitly asked, > never implicitly just by running programs. That way, whenever someone > explicitly has the created, they're also in charge of removing them.
Despite repeated discussions I haven't been swayed either way, so in lack of a preference I just speak out for the status quo :P Some people _do_ distribute only .pyc/.pyo files. > Too bad upstream Python seems to have rejected or abandoned the PEP to > make this happen. Was that PEP 304? It looks sensible from a glance. Wouter van Heyst
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