Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr> added the comment: I'm not sure why you call it a "mess". Generating a pyc file is the normal way of operating when importing a Python module from source. It's not just distutils.
And the fact that it's "harmless" does not justify adding a distutils option for something which doesn't seem to have anything to do with distutils... ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue6142> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com