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Author	neologix
Recipients	brett.cannon, neologix, pitrou, vstinner
Date	2011-10-31.17:05:50
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Message-id	<1320080750.81.0.150936749898.issue13303@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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> (it does sound a bit overkill to me :-)) Well, it depends on what we want: - if having a stale bytecode file indefinitely is acceptable, then the '.tmp' suffix approach is OK - if not, then we should use pseudo-random files > If you go that way, you should also modify Python/import.c to use a > similar logic. I think I would use mkstemp(), but yes, that's the idea. So, what do you think?

> (it does sound a bit overkill to me :-))

Well, it depends on what we want:
- if having a stale bytecode file indefinitely is acceptable, then the '.tmp' suffix approach is OK
- if not, then we should use pseudo-random files

> If you go that way, you should also modify Python/import.c to use a
> similar logic.

I think I would use mkstemp(), but yes, that's the idea.

So, what do you think?

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