On Jan 18, 6:07 am, Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote: > ... > This is the 21-year-old behavior now changed. > ...
Yes, you summarized the situation very well. The way of working has changed and probably more deeply that one may think. It is now practically impossible to launch a Python application via a .pyc file. (For the fun, try to add the "parent directory" of a cached file to the sys.path). About the caches, I'am just fearing, they will become finally garbage collectors of orphan .pyc files, Python has seed/seeded(?). The .pyc files may not be very pleasant, but at least you can use them and you have that "feeling" of their existence. I my "computer experience", once you start to cache/hide something for simplicity, the problems start. May be it a good move for Python, I do not feel very comfortable with all this stuff. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
