Hartmut Goebel <h.goe...@crazy-compilers.com> writes: > Am 06.11.2017 um 09:52 schrieb Ludovic Courtès: >>> [15:37:41] <mb[m]1> At this stage we might as well wait for this to land >>> upstream: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0552/ >>> >>> So, it seems, that we are waiting for this pep to land upstream. >> Cool, thanks for the notification. > > Seems like my message did not go through: > > This change will not solve out problem! > > PEP 552 proposes a new file-format for .pyc file and a hash-based > mechanism for checking if the .pyc file is recent. This means, you can > not backport this changes to Python 3.6 or older. Even if you manage to > backport, this would seriously break all tools working on .pyc files.
We only support Python 2 and the latest (in Guix, anyway!) Python 3 interpreter. So while we will indeed need a solution for Python2, we don't have to care about older 3.x variants.
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