Armin Rigo wrote: > Typical example: someone in the project removes a .py file, and checks > in this change; someone else does an 'svn up', which kills the .py in > his working copy, but not the .pyc. These stale .pyc's cause pain, > e.g. > by shadowing the real module (further down sys.path), or simply by > preventing the project's developers from realizing that they forgot to > fix some imports. We regularly had obscure problems that went away as > soon as we deleted all .pyc files around, but I cannot comment more on > that because we never really investigated.
This is exactly why I always use this module: ================== nobarepyc.py ============================ #!/usr/bin/env python #-*- coding: utf-8 -*- import ihooks import os class _NoBarePycHooks(ihooks.Hooks): def load_compiled(self, name, filename, *args, **kwargs): sourcefn = os.path.splitext(filename)[0] + ".py" if not os.path.isfile(sourcefn): raise ImportError('forbidden import of bare .pyc file: %r' % filename) return ihooks.Hooks.load_compiled(name, filename, *args, **kwargs) ihooks.ModuleImporter(ihooks.ModuleLoader(_NoBarePycHooks())).install() ================== /nobarepyc.py ============================ Just import it before importing anything else (or in site.py if you prefer) and you'll be done. Ah, it doesn't work with zipimports... -- Giovanni Bajo _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com