Actually: http://bugs.python.org/issue16384
And I think I'm wrong. pyc files are written atomically in Python 3.3, but afaict that's not the case in Python 3.2. The import machinery was rewritten in Python for 3.3. So this could be a race condition for earlier Pythons.
Actually: http:// bugs.python. org/issue16384
And I think I'm wrong. pyc files are written atomically in Python 3.3, but afaict that's not the case in Python 3.2. The import machinery was rewritten in Python for 3.3. So this could be a race condition for earlier Pythons.