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Re: Python Makefiles... are they possible?

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On 02/13/2013 12:54 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Feb 2013 20:06:35 -0500, Roy Smith wrote:
>
>> One thing we do in our Makefiles is "find . -name '*.pyc' | xargs rm".
>> It avoids all sorts of nasty and hard to track down bugs (consider what
>> happens if you move a .py file from one place in your source tree to
>> another and leave the old .pyc behind).
>
>
> How often do you move files around in the source tree? Meanwhile, *every*
> time you run make, you take a performance hit on every Python module in
> your project, whether it has moved or not.
>
> Seems to me like a fairly heavy-handed response for something quite rare,
> but I suppose that depends on how often you run make.
>
>
>
>

That's why I assumed that his command was triggered by the "make clean" 
command.


-- 
DaveA

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Python Makefiles... are they possible? Malcolm White <white.m88@gmail.com> - 2013-02-12 16:44 -0800
  Re: Python Makefiles... are they possible? Joel Goldstick <joel.goldstick@gmail.com> - 2013-02-12 19:55 -0500
  Re: Python Makefiles... are they possible? Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin@gmail.com> - 2013-02-13 01:00 +0000
    Re: Python Makefiles... are they possible? Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-02-12 20:06 -0500
      Re: Python Makefiles... are they possible? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-02-13 05:54 +0000
        Re: Python Makefiles... are they possible? Benjamin Schollnick <benjamin@schollnick.net> - 2013-02-13 05:45 -0500
        Re: Python Makefiles... are they possible? Dave Angel <d@davea.name> - 2013-02-13 08:33 -0500
        Re: Python Makefiles... are they possible? Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-02-13 08:44 -0500
          Re: Python Makefiles... are they possible? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-02-14 13:46 +1100
            Re: Python Makefiles... are they possible? Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-02-13 22:02 -0500
            Re: Python Makefiles... are they possible? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-02-14 17:43 +1100

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