Barry A. Warsaw <ba...@python.org> added the comment:

On Jan 15, 2018, at 11:31, Brett Cannon <rep...@bugs.python.org> wrote:
> 
> 1. SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH acts as an environment variable flag to forcibly 
> generate hash-based .pyc files with the check_source bit set in py_compile 
> and compileall
> 2. SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH is used to specifically set the timestamp in .pyc files 
> in py_compile and compileall

I’d suggest that if SDE is set to an integer, that is used as the timestamp.  
If it’s set to a special symbol (e.g. ‘hash’) then the hash is used.  I’m not 
volunteering to write the code though. :)

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