Automatically deleting pyc files when corresponding py is moved (Mercurial)

Question

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Answer 1

How about using an update hook on the server side? Put this in the repository's .hg directory's hgrc file:

[hooks]
update = find . -name '*.pyc' | xargs rm

That will delete all .pyc files whenever you update on the server. If you're worried about the cost of rebuilding all the .pyc files you could always get just a little more clever in the hook and delete only the .pyc's for which there is no .py, but that's probably overkill.