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Author dmalcolm
Recipients barry, dmalcolm, eric.araujo, georg.brandl, rhettinger
Date 2011-02-09.16:55:13
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On Wed, 2011-02-09 at 16:41 +0000, Barry A. Warsaw wrote:

> IIRC we thought about something like this during the PEP discussions and Guido nixed it.

FWIW, the closest I could find was this mail:
  http://www.mail-archive.com/python-dev@python.org/msg45203.html
(doesn't seem to be in the mail.python.org archives)
where GvR said:
> Because we don't want to completely hide the pyc files. Also the dot
> naming convention is somewhat platform-specific.

(FWIW, I wish we'd gone for .pycache too, but I guess it's too late to change now)
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