[BlackBerry-Python] python on Q10

[Ryan Wooden]

There were in fact some changes to the python 3.2 runtime for 10.1. As of
the current SDK, the python runtime will only look for .pyc files when
loading modules (to speed up launch times). This _may_ be changed back
before the 10.1 gold release. To make it act like it does in 10.0, you can
add `<env var="PYTHON_DEFAULT_IMPORT_ORDER" value="1"/>` to your
bar-descriptor.xml file. There are also some lower level changes to the
python runtime which _shouldn't_ affect any apps (you can look at
https://github.com/blackberry/python for details on those).

-Ryan W


On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 2:31 PM, Peter Hansen <peter at engcorp.com> wrote:

> On 2013-02-26 18:00, Xitij Ritesh Patel wrote:
>
>> That's interesting. I don't understand why it would only look for
>> compiled files.
>>
>> I've always shipped compiled files without issue. But this is worth
>> investigating to ensure there hasn't been a big change.
>>
>
> Ritesh, it must be a change in the 10.1 build for the Python 3.2 runtime.
>
> I've just submitted updated versions of Battery Guru and Fuel Traqker,
> built with only .pyc files. I also had a friend test a copy of White Noise
> built this way on 10.1 and sure enough, it works just fine.
>
> It's not a bad thing to ship .pyc files at this point (if there's no risk
> of them changing to 3.3 any time soon) but I do worry that this change
> might disable certain functionality that would be useful in some apps,
> specifically compiling dynamically generated code.
>
> I'll explore more once/if I can get a 10.1 simulator going, or if get a
> Dev Alpha C.
>
> -Peter
>
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