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[Python-Dev] __file__Barry Warsaw barry at python.org
Sat Feb 27 17:17:36 CET 2010
On Feb 26, 2010, at 02:29 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:

>Byte-code only wasn't always supported. We added it knowing full well
>it had all those problems (plus, it locks in the Python version),
>simply because a certain class of developers won't stop asking for it.
>Their users are apparently too dumb to decode bytecode but smart
>enough to read source code, even if they don't understand it, and this
>knowledge could hurt them. Presumably users smart enough to decode
>bytecode will know enough not to hurt themselves.

For now, I've added a open issues section to the PEP describing the options
for bytecode-only support.

I think there are better ways to satisfy the bytecode-only packager
requirements than supporting it by default, always, in the standard importer,
but let's enumerate the pros and cons and then make a decision.

-Barry
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