add note that this PEP is not about file-level or directory-level control of

bytecode file writes.
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Skip Montanaro 2003-01-29 19:28:10 +00:00
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@ -18,8 +18,9 @@ location of compiled Python bytecode files. This idea originally
arose as a patch request [1]_ and evolved into a discussion thread on
the python-dev mailing list [2]_. The introduction of an environment
variable will allow people installing Python or Python-based
third-party packages to control whether or not bytecode files
should be generated, and if so, where they should be written.
third-party packages to control whether or not bytecode files should
be generated at installation time, and if so, where they should be
written.
Proposal
@ -49,6 +50,10 @@ After startup, all runtime references are to sys.bytecodebase,
not the PYTHONBYTECODEBASE environment variable. sys.path is not
modified.
Note that this PEP is explicitly *not* about providing
module-by-module or directory-by-directory control over the
disposition of bytecode files.
Glossary
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@ -106,6 +111,7 @@ augmented directory is thus derived as ::
if base[0] == "\\": base = base[1:]
augdir = os.path.join(pcb, drive, base)
Fixing the location of the bytecode base
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