[issue11154] Alternate name for __pycache__

2011-02-09 Thread Raymond Hettinger
Raymond Hettinger added the comment: I just saw a post from Guido saying that he doesn't want the directory to be invisible. -- resolution: -> rejected status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker _

[issue11154] Alternate name for __pycache__

2011-02-09 Thread Raymond Hettinger
Raymond Hettinger added the comment: That makes sense. Making it configurable would lose some of the benefits. What we could do though, before 3.2 goes out, is change the name to ".pycache" to follow the dot-file naming convention and avoid cluttering directory listings. -- priority

[issue11154] Alternate name for __pycache__

2011-02-09 Thread Antoine Pitrou
Antoine Pitrou added the comment: I agree with barry's argument and also with Marc-André's argument on python-ideas. Your directories are far cleaner than before with pyc files all around, so what is the problem exactly? -- nosy: +pitrou ___ Python

[issue11154] Alternate name for __pycache__

2011-02-09 Thread Dave Malcolm
Dave Malcolm added the comment: On Wed, 2011-02-09 at 16:41 +, 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.htm

[issue11154] Alternate name for __pycache__

2011-02-09 Thread Georg Brandl
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[issue11154] Alternate name for __pycache__

2011-02-09 Thread Barry A. Warsaw
Barry A. Warsaw added the comment: Hmm. That's problematic. How would that interact with a system Python that is already looking in __pycache__ for its pyc files? Would it suddenly start ignoring those and wanting to write them to .pycache? IIRC we thought about something like this during t

[issue11154] Alternate name for __pycache__

2011-02-09 Thread Éric Araujo
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[issue11154] Alternate name for __pycache__

2011-02-08 Thread Raymond Hettinger
New submission from Raymond Hettinger : It would be great if the "__pycache__" name could be set by an environment variable. I would like to rename it to ".pycache" so that it doesn't pollute my directory listings. -- assignee: barry messages: 128194 nosy: barry, rhettinger priority: