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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst index 32c45ec7c3..542e84feaa 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst @@ -67,6 +67,20 @@ Summary -- Release highlights New Features ============ +Parallel filesystem cache for compiled bytecode files +----------------------------------------------------- + +The new :envvar:`PYTHONPYCACHEPREFIX` setting (also available as +:option:`-X` ``pycache_prefix``) configures the implicit bytecode +cache to use a separate parallel filesystem tree, rather than +the default ``__pycache__`` subdirectories within each source +directory. + +The location of the cache is reported in :data:`sys.pycache_prefix` +(:const:`None` indicates the default location in ``__pycache__`` +subdirectories). + +(Contributed by Carl Meyer in :issue:`33499`.) Other Language Changes |