Idiom for running compiled python scripts?

[Bjoern Schliessmann]

Mark wrote:

> E.g. say I have a python script "myprog.py". I could just execute
> that directly each time but that means it is "compiled" each time
> I run it which is not efficient and adds to startup time. 

Did you measure the performance hit in your case?

> I have one of these stubs for all my python scripts I've created
> so far. Is there not a better way? Do I have to create a separate
> stub each time? I find it a bit messy to require a pair of scripts
> for each utility and it also contributes some inefficiency. Given
> the above stub is so boilerplate, why does python not provide a
> general stub/utility mechanism for this?

I've noticed that calling the interpreter with pre-compiled pyc
files also works.

Regards,


Björn


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