where are the .pyc files?

[Steve Holden]

Summercool wrote:
> On Sep 16, 10:36 am, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch <bj_... at gmx.net> wrote:
>> The `*.pyc` files are usually only created when you import a module, not
>> when a module is run directly.
> 
> how come a program that runs directly doesn't need to be optimized
> into bytecode first?  Or... is it that the interpreter will just run
> the program as it goes by, without ever generating a .pyc file?   So
> what if you have a program that you only update every few weeks...
> then you can ask a .pyc to be generated so that it runs faster every
> time?
> 
> 
You can, if you want, compile a program manually:

   http://docs.python.org/lib/module-compileall.html

and run the resulting .pyc file if you wish. Most people don't bother, 
though. If you have a very large main program you can encapsulate it as 
a library and then call the library function from a teent-weeny main 
program that isn't worth compiling.

regards
  Steve
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