Different cache filename

Dave Angel davea at davea.name
Sat Apr 20 07:09:18 EDT 2013


On 04/20/2013 01:37 AM, Fabian PyDEV wrote:
> Hi,
>
> when load a module "mymodule.py" with importlib.machinery.SourceFileLoader a bytecode file is created as mymodule.cpython-33.pyc.
>
> If I load a module "mymodule.ext.py" the same way the same bytecode file is created as mymodule.cpython-33.pyc.
>
> Is there any way I could tell python to generate the bycode file as mymodule.ext.cpython-33.pyc?
>
> Regards,
> Fabian
>

Rename the source file to a legal one, such as:
      mymodule_ext.py

and you won't have the problem.  Period is not a valid character within 
a Python identifier.

-- 
DaveA



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