Barry Warsaw wrote: > On Feb 03, 2010, at 11:31 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote: > >> Having a lookup dictionary from Python version + C API magic numbers to >> the magic strings used in cache filenames in the import engine shouldn't >> be too tricky. I'll admit it wasn't until the thread had already been >> going for a while that I realised that, though :) > > I agree, and it's clear that would be much more user friendly. I've added a > note to my working copy of the PEP and leave that as a possible design > change. I'm still not certain what the right mapping would be though. Python > version numbers don't seem quite right, but maybe they are a "good enough" > solution.
If we ditch the -U option for 2.7, then we'll only have one magic number per CPython version. I've been using "cpython-27" in my examples. On the issue of __file__, I'd suggesting not being too hasty in deprecating that in favour of __source__. While I can see a lot of value in having it point to the source file more often with a different attribute that points to the cached file, I don't see a lot of gain to compensate for the pain of changing the name of __file__ itself. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia --------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
