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objspace.lonepycfiles
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* **name:** lonepycfiles

* **description:** Import pyc files with no matching py file

* **command-line:** --objspace-lonepycfiles

* **command-line for negation:** --no-objspace-lonepycfiles

* **option type:** boolean option

* **default:** False

* **requirements:**

  + `objspace.usepycfiles`_ must be set to 'True'

.. _`objspace.usepycfiles`: objspace.usepycfiles.html





If turned on, PyPy accepts to import a module ``x`` if it finds a
file ``x.pyc`` even if there is no file ``x.py``.

This is the way that CPython behaves, but it is disabled by
default for PyPy because it is a common cause of issues: most
typically, the ``x.py`` file is removed (manually or by a
version control system) but the ``x`` module remains
accidentally importable because the ``x.pyc`` file stays
around.

The usual reason for wanting this feature is to distribute
non-open-source Python programs by distributing ``pyc`` files
only, but this use case is not practical for PyPy at the
moment because multiple versions of PyPy compiled with various
optimizations might be unable to load each other's ``pyc``
files.
