what is a .pyo file?

[Benoit Dupire]

Yes! .pyo files contain stripped of line numbers, assertions, and other debugging
information. Therefore they run slightly faster.

Benoit.


Kalle Svensson wrote:

> On 23 Jun 2000, Venkatesh Prasad Ranganath wrote:
>
> > what are the contents of .pyo file?  When is it generated?  What is it used for?
>
> It's optimized byte code, generated by importing a module or using
> py_compile.compile() in a python process run with the -O command line
> option. The advantages of the .pyo over the .pyc file is just that it's
> optimized and thus runs faster. I guess... :)
>
> HTH,
>   Kalle Svensson