.pyo's without .pyc's?

[Fred L. Drake]

Randall Hopper writes:
 > I'm trying to cook a minimalist Python install, and I find that python -O
 > won't run without .pyc's in-place, even when there are pyo's.
 > 
 > I thought pyc's were the straight-compiled version, pyo's were the
 > optimized version, and they were independent.  Is this correct?

  They are independent, but Python will only attempt to use .pyo files 
if -O is used, and will only attempt to use .pyc files if -O is not
used.
  The work-around is to only use .pyc files and never use -O, or to
install both .pyc and .pyo files (without the source .py files).
  Perhaps importing the "other" byte-code style should be allowed when 
no source file is present?


  -Fred

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Fred L. Drake, Jr.	     <fdrake at acm.org>
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