Using SVN with Python and .pyc files

[James Stroud]

Hello All,

I have been moving to managing a lot of my code with SVN and I have
found it to work extremely well. However, I'm not exactly sure how to
deal with all of the .pyc files that get created every time I test a
project or package. How do people manage this? Do you run a script to
find files with the .pyc extension and delete those before every commit,
or is there a more elegant way? It seems like a lot of wasted bandwidth
an memory on the server side to constantly be dealing with these files
that contain no real information.

James

[Roel Schroeven]

James Stroud schreef:

I have been moving to managing a lot of my code with SVN and I have
found it to work extremely well. However, I'm not exactly sure how to
deal with all of the .pyc files that get created every time I test a
project or package. How do people manage this? Do you run a script to
find files with the .pyc extension and delete those before every commit,
or is there a more elegant way? It seems like a lot of wasted bandwidth
an memory on the server side to constantly be dealing with these files
that contain no real information.

You can instruct SVN to ignore the *.pyc files. What you need to do that
is the svn:ignore property on the directory containing the files, IIRC.
Check the docs for details. The online book at
http://svnbook.red-bean.com/ should tell you all you need. Look
especially at
http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/...special.ignore
--
If I have been able to see further, it was only because I stood
on the shoulders of giants. -- Isaac Newton

Roel Schroeven

[Duncan Booth]

James Stroud <js*****@mbi.ucla.eduwrote:

I have been moving to managing a lot of my code with SVN and I have
found it to work extremely well. However, I'm not exactly sure how to
deal with all of the .pyc files that get created every time I test a
project or package. How do people manage this? Do you run a script to
find files with the .pyc extension and delete those before every commit,
or is there a more elegant way? It seems like a lot of wasted bandwidth
an memory on the server side to constantly be dealing with these files
that contain no real information.

You use svn:ignore to ignore files you don't want version controlled.

See:
http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/...special.ignore

[Gregor Horvath]

James Stroud schrieb:

project or package. How do people manage this? Do you run a script to
find files with the .pyc extension and delete those before every commit,
or is there a more elegant way? It seems like a lot of wasted bandwidth
an memory on the server side to constantly be dealing with these files
that contain no real information.

in /etc/subversion/config

global-ignores = *.pyc *~ #*#

--
Servus, Gregor

[James Stroud]

Everyone wrote:
[something helpful]

Thank you to everyone for your responses.

James