On Jan 30, 2010, at 4:00 PM, Barry Warsaw wrote: > Abstract > ======== > > This PEP describes an extension to Python's import mechanism which > improves sharing of Python source code files among multiple installed > different versions of the Python interpreter.
+1 > It does this by > allowing many different byte compilation files (.pyc files) to be > co-located with the Python source file (.py file). It would be nice if all the compilation files could be tucked into one single zipfile per directory to reduce directory clutter. It has several benefits besides tidiness. It hides the implementation details of when magic numbers get shifted. And it may allow faster start-up times when the zipfile is in the disk cache. Raymond _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
