Compiling main script into .pyc

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Thu, 16 Jan 2014 23:43:02 -0500, Dave Angel wrote:

> MRAB <python at mrabarnett.plus.com> Wrote in message:
>> On 2014-01-17 02:56, bob gailer wrote:
>>> On 1/16/2014 8:01 PM, Sam wrote:
>>>> One thing I observe about python byte-code compiling is that the main
>>>> script does not gets compiled into .pyc. Only imported modules are
>>>> compiled into .pyc.
>>>>
>>>> May I know how can I compile the main script into .pyc?
>>> Duh? Just import it!
>>>
>> What if you want to just compile it? Importing will run it!
>> 
>> 
>> 
> Importing will only run the portion of the code not protected by
> 
> if __name__ == "__main__":


Nevertheless, there is no need to run *any* of the code just to compile 
it.


[steve at ando ~]$ cat sample.py
print("Hello!")

[steve at ando ~]$ ls sample.pyc
ls: sample.pyc: No such file or directory
[steve at ando ~]$ python -m compileall sample.py
Compiling sample.py ...
[steve at ando ~]$ ls sample.p*
sample.py  sample.pyc
[steve at ando ~]$ python sample.pyc
Hello!


-- 
Steven