Two Questions about Python on Windows

[Ethan Furman]

On 04/03/2014 10:54 AM, Ian Kelly wrote:
> On Apr 3, 2014 11:12 AM, "Walter Hurry" wrote:
>>
>> Secondly, on *ix, if there's an up-to-date .pyc in the right place and I run foo.py, Python will automagically use foo.pyc.
>
> I don't believe this is exactly correct. Python will only use a .pyc automatically for imported modules. For a file
> specified on the command line, Python won't try to second-guess the user as to which file they want.  The file could
> have a .php extension, and Python will happily run it if the contents are valid Python code.

Right.  When specifying the file as a command-line argument to python, you have it include the extension, and that is 
exactly the file that python executes.  Also, using this method, a .pyc file is not created.  Only imported files may 
have a .py[co] file automatically created for corresponding .py file.

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~Ethan~