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Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 3147: PYC Repository Directories

Whoa. This thread already exploded. I'm picking this message to
respond to because it reflects my own view after reading the PEP.
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 4:13 AM, Hanno Schlichting <ha...@hannosch.eu> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 1:03 PM, Simon Cross
> <hodgestar+python...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I don't know whether I in favour of using a single pyr folder or not
>> but if a single folder is used I'd definitely prefer the folder to be
>> called __pyr__ rather than .pyr.

Exactly what I would prefer. I worry that having many small
directories is a fairly poor use of the filesystem. A quick scan of
/usr/local/lib/python3.2 on my Linux box reveals 1163 .py files but
only 57 directories).

> Do you have any specific reason for that?
>
> Using the leading dot notation is an established pattern to hide
> non-essential information from directory views. What makes this
> non-applicable in this situation and a custom Python notation better?

Because we don't want to completely hide the pyc files. Also the dot
naming convention is somewhat platform-specific.

FWIW in Python 3, the __file__ variable always points to the .py
source filename. I agreed with Georg that there ought to be an API for
finding the pyc file for a module. This could be a small addition to
the PEP.

-- 
--Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
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