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authorBenjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org>2017-12-09 18:26:52 (GMT)
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closes bpo-31650: PEP 552 (Deterministic pycs) implementation (#4575)
Python now supports checking bytecode cache up-to-dateness with a hash of the source contents rather than volatile source metadata. See the PEP for details. While a fairly straightforward idea, quite a lot of code had to be modified due to the pervasiveness of pyc implementation details in the codebase. Changes in this commit include: - The core changes to importlib to understand how to read, validate, and regenerate hash-based pycs. - Support for generating hash-based pycs in py_compile and compileall. - Modifications to our siphash implementation to support passing a custom key. We then expose it to importlib through _imp. - Updates to all places in the interpreter, standard library, and tests that manually generate or parse pyc files to grok the new format. - Support in the interpreter command line code for long options like --check-hash-based-pycs. - Tests and documentation for all of the above.
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is believed that overcoming this performance issue would make the
implementation much more complicated and therefore costlier to maintain.
+
+ hash-based pyc
+ A bytecode cache file that uses the the hash rather than the last-modified
+ time of the corresponding source file to determine its validity. See
+ :ref:`pyc-invalidation`.
+
hashable
An object is *hashable* if it has a hash value which never changes during
its lifetime (it needs a :meth:`__hash__` method), and can be compared to