MRAB <pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com> writes: > Alf P. Steinbach wrote: >> * John Bokma: >>> MRAB <pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com> writes: >>> >>>> The PEP has a .pyr directory for each .py file: >>>> >>>> foo.py >>>> foo.pyr/ >>>> f2b30a0d.pyc # Python 2.5 >>>> f2d10a0d.pyc # Python 2.6 >>>> f2d10a0d.pyo # Python 2.6 -O >>>> f2d20a0d.pyc # Python 2.6 -U >>>> 0c4f0a0d.pyc # Python 3.1 >>> >>> wow: so much for human readable file names :-( >> >> I agree. >> >> Human readable filenames would be much better. >> > The names are the magic numbers. It's all in the PEP.
Naming files using magic numbers is really beyond me. The fact that the above needs comments to explain what's what already shows to me that there's a problem with this naming scheme. What if for one reason or another I want to delete all pyc files for Python 2.5? Where do I look up the magic number? -- John Bokma j3b Hacking & Hiking in Mexico - http://johnbokma.com/ http://castleamber.com/ - Perl & Python Development -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
