PEP 3147 - new .pyc format

Neil Hodgson nyamatongwe+thunder at gmail.com
Sat Jan 30 20:09:07 EST 2010


John Roth:

> 4. I'm in favor of putting the source in the .pyr directory as well,
> but that's got a couple more issues. One is tool support, which is
> likely to be worse for source, and the other is some kind of algorithm
> for identifying which source goes with which object.

   Many tools work recursively except for hidden directories so would
return both the source in the repository as well as the original source.
If you want to do this then the repository directory should be hidden by
starting with ".".

   Neil



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