Using SVN with Python and .pyc files

[Roel Schroeven]

James Stroud schreef:
> I have been moving to managing a lot of my code with SVN and I have 
> found it to work extremely well. However, I'm not exactly sure how to 
> deal with all of the .pyc files that get created every time I test a 
> project or package. How do people manage this? Do you run a script to 
> find files with the .pyc extension and delete those before every commit, 
> or is there a more elegant way? It seems like a lot of wasted bandwidth 
> an memory on the server side to constantly be dealing with these files 
> that contain no real information.

You can instruct SVN to ignore the *.pyc files. What you need to do that 
is the svn:ignore property on the directory containing the files, IIRC. 
Check the docs for details. The online book at 
http://svnbook.red-bean.com/ should tell you all you need. Look 
especially at 
http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.advanced.props.html#svn.advanced.props.special.ignore


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Roel Schroeven