[Python-ideas] Changing the name of __pycache__

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Nick Coghlan wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 9:16 PM, M.-A. Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> wrote:
>> Ok, but why don't those pyc files support the same <magic> add-on
>> as the files in the __pycache__ dir ?
> 
> Because the idea was mainly to retain the legacy .pyc support so we
> didn't break any sourceless distributions that already worked, not to
> encourage more of them. If people want to target a specific
> interpreter and ship sourceless, they can do that, or they can target
> multiple interpreter implementations by shipping the source.

Why alienate sourceless distributions by not supporting the same
logic in the main package dir ?

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