On 15 November 2015 at 20:25, Chris Barker - NOAA Federal <chris.bar...@noaa.gov> wrote: > Though I suspect that Window's aggressive file locking will put the kibosh > on in-place upgrades :)
Generally, no. Python loads pyc files with a single read, it doesn't leave the files open. The only locking issues are when you try to upgrade a wrapper exe while it's in use. That might affect you if you try to upgrade IPython from within IPython, but otherwise it's probably fine. Paul _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
