[Python-Dev] Re: module extension search order - can it be changed?

[Guido van Rossum]

> > Maybe, if the source file can't be found, it could
> > decompile the bytecode?
> 
> Too clever by far. The peculiar way in which the comments disappear,
> the fact that the code is wrong when I used a (so-far-non-existent)
> peephole optimizer to optimize my .pyc files... I'd rather show NO
> line (so long as we still give file and line number) than try to
> guess in an overly clever manner.

I thought for sure Greg had left off the smiley.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)