[Python-Dev] how important is setting co_filename for a module being imported to what __file__ is set to?

[Antoine Pitrou]

Benjamin Peterson <benjamin <at> python.org> writes:
> 
> > Why can't we simply make co_filename a writable attribute instead of
inventing
> > some complicated API?
> 
> Because code objects are supposed to be a immutable hashable object?

Right, but co_filename is used neither in tp_hash nor in tp_richcompare.

Regards

Antoine.