Barry Warsaw wrote: > *creation* is the key here. As per BDFL pronouncement, we'll support reading > pyc-only modules just like we do today. This is in PEP 3147. We won't > support creating them though.
The creation side could be made a little more explicit in the PEP. We could also do something via the compileall module. (Pause while Nick goes and reads the source code for compileall for the first time ever...) Hmm - methinks the PEP actually needs to talk explicitly about the py_compile and compileall modules. These compile the files directly rather than using the import system's side-effect, so they'll need to understand the intricacies of the new system. While it's probably OK if the import side-effects only create files using the new scheme, the standard library modules will likely need to support both schemes (although I'm not sure if "same as import system" or "same as Python 3.1" make more sense as the default semantics - probably the former). Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia --------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ 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
