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Sun Feb 7 01:27:42 CET 2010 · http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2010-February/097471.html

Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> writes:

> On Feb 03, 2010, at 11:07 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
>
> >It's also the case that having to run Python to manage my own
> >filesystem would very annoying.
[…]

Files that are problematic wouldn't need Python to manage any more than
currently. The suggestion was just that, a suggestion for Python to
expose information to assist; it wouldn't be required.

> I agree. I'd prefer to have a predictable place for the cached files,
> independent of having to run Python to tell you where that is.

Right; I don't see who would disagree with that. I don't see any
conflict between “decouple compiled bytecode file locations from source
file locations” versus “predictable location for the compiled bytecode
files”.

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