On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 8:34 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> That still leaves the question of what to do with __file__ (for which
> even the solution in the PEP isn't particularly clean). Perhaps the
> thing to do there is to have __file__ always point to the source file
> and introduce a __file_cached__ that points to the bytecompiled file on
> disk (set to None if it doesn't exist, as may be the case for __main__
> or due to writing of bytecode files being disabled).

+1 for this, it seems to be what most people want anyway, given the
code that munges the .pyc back to the .py.  I bet this change would
break very little code.

Reid
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