* Matthew Miller:
> On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 10:10:40AM +0200, Vít Ondruch wrote:
>> Also, you might consider to ship the precompiled bytecode just
>> optionally, using recommends.
>>
>> On contrary, if you insist on shipping the bytecode, why you don't drop
>> the .py files? I see a lot of duplication all around python packages ....
>
> Wait, we can do that? Why don't we?
It alters backtraces:
Here's a silly example:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "u.py", line 2, in <module>
t.t()
File "/tmp/t.py", line 2, in t
a()
File "/tmp/t.py", line 5, in a
b()
File "/tmp/t.py", line 8, in b
c()
NameError: global name 'c' is not defined
This turns into:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "u.py", line 2, in <module>
t.t()
File "/tmp/t.py", line 2, in t
File "/tmp/t.py", line 5, in a
File "/tmp/t.py", line 8, in b
NameError: global name 'c' is not defined
Such a change will not be universally well-received.
In any case, source code (with comments stripped and whitespace
normalized) is often smaller than bytecode (or most other forms of
serializing syntax), and compresses better.
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