Compiled version when .cgi extension is used for scripts

[Bernard Niset]

Right !!!
By the way I have the answer to my question: there is no easy way to use a
compiled version of the scripts. And you are right too, it is fast enough
this way.

Python is a great tool to develop web sites. The web site development I am
currently doing is using Python, Java, CORBA (omniORB, omniORBpy), JSP and
Oracle. It will be a nice mixing of technologies.

Thanks again for your help,
Cheers,
Bern.

"Thomas Wouters" <thomas at xs4all.net> wrote in message
news:20000517091650.N16186 at xs4all.nl...
> On Tue, May 16, 2000 at 10:42:18PM +0200, Bernard Niset wrote:
>
> > > Note that your script would have to be fairly lengthy before you to
> > > actually notice the difference between the two versions.
>
> > I know but it is still useless to to a compilation each time.
>
> Useless, probably, slower, maybe, but is the minor speedup really worth
> having to check wether the code should be recompiled, dumping the new
> compiled version to disk, not to mention the clutter it would cause,
having
> all those .pyc files lying around ? If you really need the speedup, create
a
> C wrapper that exec()'s python with 'argv[0] + ".pyc"' as argument, and
only
> update the bytecode version when you want to.
>
> But dont forget to recompile the compiled version when you install Python
> 1.6, or it wont work :-)
>
>
> > > Unfortunately, compiled python scripts need to have the .pyc (or .pyo)
> > > extention for the interpreter to see them as such... If they have any
> > > other name, the python interpreter tries to interpret them as normal
> > > scripts instead. I'm not really sure why, but I guess the variance in
> > > bytecode versions is too great to make the python interpreter
autodetect
> > > them... I think it would be neat if it could, though.
>
> > When the script is named differently from .py, the interpreter could use
> > scheme like original_name.ext.pyc.
>
> Yes, I know, but my point was that you can't rename your '.pyc' file to
> something without a .pyc extention, and still keep it functional. If you
> want to pass a bytecode-compiled version of a script to the python
> interpreter, it *has* to have a name ending on '.pyc'. If this wasn't
> necessary, you could make a 'misc binary' handler on linux that allows you
> to run python bytecode as if they were normal binaries ;-)
>
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