On Jan 18, 2008, at 9:49 AM, Phillip J. Eby wrote: > At 11:34 AM 1/18/2008 +0100, Viktor Fougstedt wrote: >> My thoughts (perhaps useful, perhaps not): >> >> * Primarly, I think it is unfortunate that an "import foo" starts >> creating files in the file system - it is not what I personally >> expect from doing an "import"! > > Note that normal imports will also create .pyc or .pyo files > alongside the source, if a valid compiled version of the source isn't > available.
Only if the process has write access to the directory. No error occurs if the pyc files can't be written. Jim -- Jim Fulton Zope Corporation _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
