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authorGeorg Brandl <georg@python.org>2008-01-07 17:09:35 (GMT)
committerGeorg Brandl <georg@python.org>2008-01-07 17:09:35 (GMT)
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Patch #602345 by Neal Norwitz and me: add -B option and PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE envvar to skip writing bytecode.
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@@ -12,6 +12,10 @@ What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 1?
Core and builtins
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+- Patch #602345: Add -B command line option, PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE envvar
+ and sys.dont_write_bytecode attribute. All these can be set to forbid Python
+ to attempt to write compiled bytecode files.
+
- Improve some exception messages when Windows fails to load an extension
module. Now we get for example '%1 is not a valid Win32 application' instead
of 'error code 193'.