__pycache__, one more good reason to stck with Python 2?

Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Tue Jan 18 00:07:05 EST 2011


On 1/17/2011 10:57 PM, Ben Finney wrote:
> Terry Reedy<tjreedy at udel.edu>  writes:
>
>> On 1/17/2011 8:59 PM, Flávio Lisbôa wrote:
>>> But that's me, i'm sure most of python users don't mind at all.
>>
>> Seems so. Complaints are rare.
>
> That conclusion isn't valid; the behaviour is (AIUI) only in Python 3.2
> and later. You can't presume that a lack of complaints means anything
> about “most Python users” until those users are on a Python that shows
> this behaviour.

The person I was responding to was complaining, I believe, about .pyc 
files in the project directory, which I take to be the same directory as 
.py files. This is the 21-year-old behavior now changed.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy





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