On Feb 03, 2010, at 01:17 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote: >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__?
Upon further reflection, I agree. __file__ also points to the source in Python 2.7. Do we need an attribute to point to the compiled bytecode file? -Barry
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