[issue24069] Option to delete obsolete bytecode files

Change by Irit Katriel : -- resolution: -> rejected stage: -> resolved status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bu

[issue24069] Option to delete obsolete bytecode files

Steven D'Aprano added the comment: This would be risky, as byte-code only libraries do exist. I think that deleting orphaned .pyc files from inside the __pycache__ directory is safe, but deleting orphaned .pyc files outside of that risks deleting legitimate byte-code libraries which are in use

[issue24069] Option to delete obsolete bytecode files

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[issue24069] Option to delete obsolete bytecode files

New submission from Sworddragon: The library compileall has the option -f to force the rebuilding of the bytecode files so I thought maybe there could also be an option to delete all bytecode files which haven't a non-bytecode library anymore. -- components: Library (Lib) messages: 242