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[Python-Dev] PEP 488: elimination of PYO files

Benjamin Peterson benjamin at python.org
Sat Mar 7 00:49:11 CET 2015 
On Fri, Mar 6, 2015, at 15:11, Brett Cannon wrote:
> 
> OK, but that doesn't influence the PEP's goal of dropping .pyo files.

Correct.

> 
> Are you suggesting that the tag be changed to be less specific to
> optimizations and more free-form? Like
> `importlib.cpython-35.__no-asserts_no-docstrings__.pyc`? Otherwise stuff
> like this gets baked into the .pyc file itself instead of the file name,
> but I don't think we should just drop the ability to switch off asserts
> and
> docstrings like Mark seemed to be suggesting.

Basically, though the filename strings could perhaps be more compact.
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