On Feb 26, 2010, at 02:29 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote: >Byte-code only wasn't always supported. We added it knowing full well >it had all those problems (plus, it locks in the Python version), >simply because a certain class of developers won't stop asking for it. >Their users are apparently too dumb to decode bytecode but smart >enough to read source code, even if they don't understand it, and this >knowledge could hurt them. Presumably users smart enough to decode >bytecode will know enough not to hurt themselves.
For now, I've added a open issues section to the PEP describing the options for bytecode-only support. I think there are better ways to satisfy the bytecode-only packager requirements than supporting it by default, always, in the standard importer, but let's enumerate the pros and cons and then make a decision. -Barry
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