[Python-ideas] Changing the name of __pycache__

Alexandre Conrad alexandre.conrad at gmail.com
Wed Feb 9 18:17:46 CET 2011


2011/2/8 Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net>:
> The fact that pyc files were not named ".foo.pyc" hints that we
> want them to be visible, IMO.
> Also, I'm not sure how a single __pycache__ directory is worse than N
> pyc files.

Maybe one of the purpose of __pycache__ was to "hide" the existing .pyc files.

I am +1 on .pycache which would be less intrusive.
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