But I think dll/pyd files from extension modules present more of a challenge, since they're left open. I recall some issues around this with conda (e.g. https://github.com/conda/conda-build/pull/520)
-Robert On Sun, Nov 15, 2015 at 12:31 PM, Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 15 November 2015 at 20:25, Chris Barker - NOAA Federal > <chris.bar...@noaa.gov> wrote: > > Though I suspect that Window's aggressive file locking will put the > kibosh > > on in-place upgrades :) > > Generally, no. Python loads pyc files with a single read, it doesn't > leave the files open. The only locking issues are when you try to > upgrade a wrapper exe while it's in use. That might affect you if you > try to upgrade IPython from within IPython, but otherwise it's > probably fine. > > Paul > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig >
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