[Pythonmac-SIG] Applet/compilation oddities?

[Michael Dunn]

    Hi all.  I'm not sure how "Mac-only" this is, but I'd like to 
better understand some "compilation" behaviour.  When I compile or 
save as applet, WITHOUT optimization on, I get a file with, in one 
particular case, about 700 bytes of data, and ~30K in the resource 
fork.  This works great on the Mac, but is not portable bytecode!  If 
I turn optimization ON, I get a 10K file -- no resource fork, and I'm 
guessing IS portable.  Somewhat odd, but my main concern is that I 
assumed the optimization would strip comments.  However, looking at 
the file, I still see multi-line comments (not #comments), as well as 
docstrings!  Is this odd, or what...?

thx
Michael