bpo-40495: compileall option to hardlink duplicate pyc files (GH-19901)
compileall is now able to use hardlinks to prevent duplicates in a
case when .pyc files for different optimization levels have the same content.
Co-authored-by: Miro Hrončok <miro@hroncok.cz>
Co-authored-by: Victor Stinner <vstinner@python.org>
diff --git a/Misc/ACKS b/Misc/ACKS
index f744de6..b479aa5 100644
--- a/Misc/ACKS
+++ b/Misc/ACKS
@@ -86,6 +86,7 @@
Alfonso Baciero
Dwayne Bailey
Stig Bakken
+Lumír Balhar
Aleksandr Balezin
Greg Ball
Lewis Ball
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-05-04-11-20-49.bpo-40495.TyTc2O.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-05-04-11-20-49.bpo-40495.TyTc2O.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d3049b0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-05-04-11-20-49.bpo-40495.TyTc2O.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+:mod:`compileall` is now able to use hardlinks to prevent duplicates in a
+case when ``.pyc`` files for different optimization levels have the same content.