On Feb 01, 2010, at 08:26 AM, Tim Delaney wrote: >The pyc/pyo files are just an optimisation detail, and are essentially >temporary. Given that, if they were to live in a single directory, to me it >seems obvious that the default location for that should be in the system >temporary directory. I an immediately think of the following advantages: > >1. No one really complains too much about putting things in /tmp unless it >starts taking up too much space. In which case they delete it and if it gets >reused, it gets recreated.
IIUC the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard correctly, then these files really should go under /var/cache/python. (Don't ask me where that would be on non-FHS compliant systems <cough>Windows</cough>). I've explained in other followups why I don't particularly like separating the source from the cache files though, but if you wanted a sick approach: Take the full absolutely path to the .py file, plus the magic number, plus the time stamp and hash that. Cache the pyc file under /var/cache/python/<hash>. -Barry
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