On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 09:03:05AM +0200, Alexandre Fayolle wrote: > You always can copy the .py[co] files in > /usr/lib/python2.X/site-packages at install time. Since these directory > come before /usr/lib/site-python in the default sys.path, the compiled > modules will be used on import. > > Now this has some unpleasant consequences: > * python no longer has a way of seeing if the .pyc is up to date > * I think this screws up the exception reporting routines in python > > Maybe this could be handled with symlinks?
Of course, all this require manual handling from the user. What I was proposing would require a whole PEP and some reasonable design and implementation, etc, so Python itself could map those .pyc to their original file, only resorting to them if the original .py/.pyc are not synced; deleting them if they're not usefult any more, etc.
