[Python-ideas] Changing the name of __pycache__

[Nick Coghlan]

On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 4:59 AM, M.-A. Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> wrote:
>
> Why alienate sourceless distributions by not supporting the same
> logic in the main package dir ?

Because a large number of the people involved in the PEP 3147
discussions wanted to drop support for sourceless imports completely,
including the folks doing the implementation work. Retaining legacy
sourceless imports was a compromise that preserved existing
functionality without increasing the implementation effort needed for
the PEP.

Changing that will require a patch and advocacy from folks that are
actually *fans* of sourceless distribution, as opposed to merely
tolerating them as an arguably necessary evil.

Cheers,
Nick.

-- 
Nick Coghlan   |   ncoghlan at gmail.com   |   Brisbane, Australia