Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> Karen Tracey wrote:
>
>   
>> We've had at least three people run into a problem (#9090) after 
>> installing 1.0 over an old level.  Now, we do document that before 
>> installing you should remove any old level.  But I find the results when 
>> you don't rather odd. It's not just old files renamed/deleted in the new 
>> level that wind up being 'leftover' in the site-packages directory. 
>> Rather, some files that exist in both levels, and changed between the 
>> two, are not updated by install.  So you wind up with a mixture of 
>> 0.96.x and 1.0 level files, which is pretty confusing and subject to odd 
>> failures.
>>     
>
> does that apply to PY files, or is it just that you may have PYC files 
> from 0.96.x but PY files from 1.0?   (Python only looks at the timestamp 
> when deciding whether to recompile a PY file, so if your PYC files for 
> 0.96.x were created later than the corresponding 1.0 file, Python will 
> pick up the wrong file).
>
> is the installer you're referring to here "setup.py", or something else?
>
>   
See ticket #9112 for a purported explanation.

regards
 Steve


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