On Sun, 14 Mar 2010 11:59:50 pm Jon Ribbens wrote: > Sorry if I missed it, but why on earth is the bytecode directory > __pycache__ and not .pycache? (Or indeed anything else that starts > with a '.') Surely this is a classic ideal use case for a "hidden" > directory?
I disagree with your assumption that there is *any* use-case for a hidden directory, let alone an ideal one. I despise hidden directories and dot files. I know it is the "Unix way", and I suppose it made sense back in 1975 when users had two or three dot files in their home directory, but I count 215 dot files in my home directory compared to only 77 visible files, and I have no idea how most of them got there or what they do. Programs that litter the file system with dot files are bad enough when they do it in $HOME, but sprinkling dot files everywhere they can is inexcusable. This is not the place for me to rant over the evil that is dot files, so I'll just say this: Python works on platforms other than Unix/Linux, and some of those platforms don't treat dot files as anything more than a file with a leading dot in the file name. -- Steven D'Aprano _______________________________________________ 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
