pyo contains absolute paths

[Michael Hudson]

David Siroky <dsiroky at email.cz> writes:

> Hi!
> 
> When I "compile" my python files with "python -OO ...." into pyo files
> then they still contain absolute paths of the source files which is
> undesirable for me. How can I deal with that?

Are you trying to save space?  In 2.4 and later each code object will
contain the same copy of the absolute path, so you can't save that
much space.

There are probably ways to make .pycs that have a path of "", if you
really want (see py_compile in the stdlib).

Cheers,
mwh

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