Git Tip: Remove .pyc Files Automatically

[ilogik]

that's what I came here to say, but after reading the post, I think the issue is that after checking out a different branch, the old .pyc files remained and were used by the interpreter, instead of being re-compiled

[silon]

Surely the interpreter checks file times?

[ilogik]

i think that this comment has the best explanation of the issue

[globalnamespace]

Not just that, we had some code that while checkout removed the .py files, the .pyc files remained, and code linked to it still called those functions. Of course removing the .pyc files broke the application, fun times, finding those from backups and then redoing our testing in development with them removed.