On approximately 2/27/2010 5:25 PM, came the following characters from
the keyboard of Greg Ewing:
Glenn Linderman wrote:
What I did was:
python -m test
ren test.pyc foo.py
foo.py
and it worked.
Source files mentioned on the command line aren't required to
have a .py extension. I think what's happening is that the
interpreter ignores the filename altogether in that case and
examines the contents of the file to figure out what it is,
in order to support running .pyc files from the command line.
Thanks for the explanation. Brett mentioned something like runpy vs
import using different techniques. Which is OK, I guess, but if the
command line/runpy can do it, the importer could do it. Just a matter
of desire and coding. Whether it is worth pursuing further depends on
people's perceptions of "kookiness" vs. functional and performance
considerations.
--
Glenn -- http://nevcal.com/
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