[Python-ideas] Importing orphaned bytecode files

[Greg Ewing]

Brett Cannon wrote:

> In a perfect world I would make pyc/pyo files completely optional and 
> only an optimization that could not work w/o the corresponding source.

That wouldn't be a perfect world in every universe. For
example, consider an app installed in an embedded device
with limited memory -- the source is never going to be
seen by anyone, and all it would do is waste resources.

-- 
Greg