On Sun, Jun 11, 2006 at 02:35:05PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Hi, > > as part of the new policy we should also deprecate /usr/lib/site-python. I'll have to reread the new policy, but I think this is not a very good idea. /usr/lib/site-python exists for modules which do not care about which version of the python interpreter is used and is therefore very useful. > > Since this directory is in sys.path of all python versions, if we > byte-compile those in-place for the current version, then the modules > won't work with other python versions. This just not true. Python is smart enough not to use the .pyc if the version used to produce it is not the one which is used. The problem only exists for python extensions, but pure python modules have no problem with this. -- Alexandre Fayolle LOGILAB, Paris (France) Formations Python, Zope, Plone, Debian: http://www.logilab.fr/formations Développement logiciel sur mesure: http://www.logilab.fr/services Informatique scientifique: http://www.logilab.fr/science
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