saving pre-compiled scripts

[Derek van Vliet]

Hi,

I'm working on an application that reads python scripts from XML
elements and compiles them during my app's startup process using. The
application then runs the resulting compiled PyCodeObjects using
PyEval_EvalCode as they are needed.

Now I'm wondering if its possible to pre-compile the scripts and save
the PyCodeObjects in a binary file (or in CDATA in an XML element) and
have them ready to run when the application starts up.

My only constraint is that I need to be able to load the scripts from
memory (which is why using Py_CompileString has worked well for me).

Is there any way I can get the size of a PyCodeObject so that I could
save it to a binary file? If I did that would it run correctly if I
reloaded it and tried to Eval it? Can I load a pyc file from memory
somehow?

Any guidance would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Derek