Bug 683962

Summary:	x11-terms/kitty not using __pycache__
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Jan Ziak (atomsymbol) <0xe2.0x9a.0x9b>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Pablo Orduna <pabloorduna98>
Status:	RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Severity:	normal	CC:	ionen, proxy-maint
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Description Jan Ziak (atomsymbol) 2019-04-21 12:44:28 UTC

Hello.

Kitty's __pycache__ files are being compiled with Python optimizations enabled. This generates for example "/usr/lib64/kitty/__pycache__/__main__.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc".

However, the opt-1 files aren't being used by kitty, instead kitty is searching for "/usr/lib64/kitty/__pycache__/__main__.cpython-36.pyc".

$ qlist kitty | grep __pycache__.*__main__
/usr/lib64/kitty/__pycache__/__main__.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc

$ strace kitty true |& grep __pycache__.*__main__
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/usr/bin/../lib64/kitty/__pycache__/__main__.cpython-36.pyc", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)

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This may be an indication of a larger problem:

$ find /usr/lib64 | grep __pycache__.*opt-1.pyc | wc -l
17214

$ find /usr/lib64 | grep __pycache__.*pyc | grep -v opt-1 | wc -l
34181

Is there a way to verify in an automated way whether Python packages are actually using installed __pycache__ files?

Comment 1 Ionen Wolkens gentoo-dev

2021-10-27 05:45:47 UTC

kitty currently generates bytecode for all optimization levels

I think this is obsolete