Re: PEP for the removal of PYO files

Antoine Pitrou <[email protected]> Sat, 28 Feb 2015 17:57:08 +0100

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On Fri, 27 Feb 2015 17:06:59 +0000
Brett Cannon <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> A period was chosen over a hyphen as a separator so as to distinguish
> clearly that the optimization level is not part of the interpreter
> version as specified by the cache tag. It also lends to the use of
> the period in the file name to delineate semantically different
> concepts.

Indeed but why would other implementations have to mimick CPython here?
Perhaps the whole idea of differing "optimization" levels doesn't make
sense for them.

Regards

Antoine.