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| author | Carl Meyer <carl@oddbird.net> | 2018-06-16 04:40:56 (GMT) |
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| committer | Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan@gmail.com> | 2018-06-16 04:40:56 (GMT) |
| commit | b193fa996a746111252156f11fb14c12fd6267e6 (patch) | |
| tree | 1995957ce580ba762a19f64e41db2db32aec096a /Misc | |
| parent | 68680035143a3a6398faa88f067f244c74691d19 (diff) | |
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bpo-33499: Add PYTHONPYCACHEPREFIX env var for alt bytecode cache location. (GH-6834)
In some development setups it is inconvenient or impossible to write bytecode
caches to the code tree, but the bytecode caches are still useful. The
PYTHONPYCACHEPREFIX environment variable allows specifying an alternate
location for cached bytecode files, within which a directory tree mirroring the code
tree will be created. This cache tree is then used (for both reading and writing)
instead of the local `__pycache__` subdirectory within each source directory.
Exposed at runtime as sys.pycache_prefix (defaulting to None), and can
be set from the CLI as "-X pycache_prefix=path".
Patch by Carl Meyer.
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diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-05-15-10-48-47.bpo-33499.uBEc06.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-05-15-10-48-47.bpo-33499.uBEc06.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f25a8d0 --- /dev/null +++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-05-15-10-48-47.bpo-33499.uBEc06.rst @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +Add :envvar:`PYTHONPYCACHEPREFIX` environment variable and :option:`-X` +``pycache_prefix`` command-line option to set an alternate root directory for +writing module bytecode cache files. |