On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 12:47 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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.
Can you clarify? In Python 3, __file__ always points to the source. Clearly that is the way of the future. For 99.99% of uses of __file__, if it suddenly never pointed to a .pyc file any more (even if one existed) that would be just fine. So what's this talk of switching to __source__? -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) _______________________________________________ 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
