Any way to not create .pyc files?

[Piet van Oostrum]

>>>>> Terry Hancock <hancock at anansispaceworks.com> (TH) wrote:


>TH> It looks to me like Python just deleted a read-only file owned by
>TH> root in order to replace it with a new pyc file.  Can somebody
>TH> explain that to me?!  Isn't that supposed to be impossible?

If the directory is writable, you can delete a file and write a new one
with the same name. The permissions of the file itself are of no importance
in this case.
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