[Python-Dev] Importing .pyc in -O mode and vice versa

Jean-Paul Calderone exarkun at divmod.com
Tue Nov 7 00:33:36 CET 2006


On Tue, 07 Nov 2006 12:20:00 +1300, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
>
>I think I'd be happy with having to do that explicitly.
>I expect the vast majority of Python programs don't
>need to track changes to the set of importable modules
>during execution. The exceptions would be things like
>IDEs, and they could do a cache flush before reloading
>a module, etc.

Another questionable optimization which changes application-
level semantics.

No, please?

Jean-Paul


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