Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr> added the comment: > IIRC, the reason is to avoid having a stale pyc file indefinitely in > case of crash: > if we always used, let's say, path + '.tmp', if the process crashes > before the rename, then all subsequent attempts to write the bytecode > will fail because of the stale temporary file.
But that will also fail if id(path) happens to be fairly deterministic :) I don't know how much deterministic it can be in practice, that probably depends on the OS and on the code path? ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue14077> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
