Dave Jones added the comment: Hello Ian. Thank you for the reply.
As I imagine you understand, I delete the "time.pyc" file every time it comes back. That being said, there *is* a "time.py" script in there from some testing I was doing: [jonesda0@toshiba pycode]$ ls -1tr *.py* | egrep "sp|time" time.py time2.py test-sp.py sp.py -------------------------------------------- [jonesda0@toshiba pycode]$ cat time.py i = 0 j = 0 while (i < 100000000): # i = i + 1 i+=1 # j = j + 1 j+=1 print j -------------------------- [jonesda0@toshiba pycode]$ python sp.py 100000000 Done....... [jonesda0@toshiba pycode]$ ls -1tr *.py* | egrep "sp|time" time.py time2.py test-sp.py sp.py time.pyc ------------------------------ I am not calling any sort of "time.py" anywhere: [jonesda0@toshiba pycode]$ cat sp.py ## still took about 25 seconds import subprocess print ("Done.......") ------------------------------ So where does this behavior come from? [jonesda0@toshiba pycode]$ cat time.pyc ## There is all sorts of Escape code in the file, obviously. ���Pc@s<dZdZx$edkr2ed7Zed7ZqWeGHdS(ii��iN(titj(((s/home/jonesda0/pycode/time.py<module>s [jonesda0@toshiba pycode]$ file time.pyc time.pyc: python 2.7 byte-compiled [jonesda0@toshiba pycode]$ --------------------------------- [jonesda0@toshiba pycode]$ rm -f time.pyc [jonesda0@toshiba pycode]$ mv time.py time.py.bad [jonesda0@toshiba pycode]$ time python sp.py Done....... real 0m0.027s user 0m0.021s sys 0m0.005s [jonesda0@toshiba pycode]$ ls -1tr *.py* | egrep "sp|time" time.py.bad time2.py test-sp.py sp.py -------------------------- Your hypothesis is clearly accurate, but my question is now *WHY*? I was in no way calling a python time function or time.py, it just happened to be in the directory! Thanks ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue17124> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com