[Zope3-dev] Re: zope.testing.testrunner: issue with remove_stale_bytecode

[Tres Seaver]

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Jim Fulton wrote:
> Wichert Akkerman wrote:
>> Previously Andrew Bennetts wrote:
>>> The real problem as you noted in your original message is that
>>> there's no way to
>>> distinguish between a pyc file that is only intended to be used as a
>>> cache of
>>> bytecode for a py file, and a pyc file that is intended to be used
>>> standalone.
>>
>> Isn't the existing or non-existing of a corresponding .py file a good
>> indication?
> 
> No, because you may have intended to remove the module.

Marking the directories containing the sourceless .pyc files as readonly
would be a reasonable workaround:  if your forgot the '-k', the
testrunner would just whine and halt.


Tres.
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