Dave Malcolm <dmalc...@redhat.com> added the comment: On Wed, 2011-02-09 at 16:41 +0000, Barry A. Warsaw wrote:
> IIRC we thought about something like this during the PEP discussions and > Guido nixed it. FWIW, the closest I could find was this mail: http://www.mail-archive.com/python-dev@python.org/msg45203.html (doesn't seem to be in the mail.python.org archives) where GvR said: > Because we don't want to completely hide the pyc files. Also the dot > naming convention is somewhat platform-specific. (FWIW, I wish we'd gone for .pycache too, but I guess it's too late to change now) ---------- nosy: +dmalcolm _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue11154> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com