If you use Python -OO is it a permanent condition??

[Aahz]

In article <rXpP8.32471$ks6.25445 at nwrddc02.gnilink.net>,
Jeff Sasmor <jeff at sasmor.com> wrote:
>
>So  I tried:
>
>python -OO P1.pyo
>
>and it works just fine.  Does this mean that the interpreter must
>always be started with -OO to execute files compiled with -OO?  I can't
>imagine why this would be the case, but it seems to be -- at least as
>far as I can see from my little bit of experimentation.

Python doesn't search for .pyo files unless it is running in optimized
mode.  Try setting the PYTHONOPTIMIZE env var.
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