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

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 14:31:15 -0800, Alice Bevan–McGregor wrote:

> On 2011-01-19 13:01:04 -0800, Steven D'Aprano said:
>> I know I've seen problems executing .pyc files from the shell in the
>> past... perhaps I was conflating details of something else. Ah, I know!
>> 
>> [steve at sylar ~]$ chmod u+x toto.pyc
>> [steve at sylar ~]$ ./toto.pyc
>> : command not found ��
>> ./toto.pyc: line 2: syntax error near unexpected token `(' ./toto.pyc:
>> line 2: `P7Mc at s     dGHdS(tfooN((((s        ./ toto.py<module>s'
> 
> ... don't do that.  I do not know why that would be expected to work,
> ever.  (Unless you're crafty and wrap a real shell script around the
> .pyc, in which case it's no longer a .pyc.)

I didn't expect it to work, but I have seen others do it and be surprised 
that it doesn't. This is why I was pleasantly surprised to learn that 
`python toto.pyc` does work -- I was conflating the above failure with 
the issue under discussion.



-- 
Steven