[Pythonmac-SIG] pyo and pyc

Bob Ippolito bob at redivi.com
Mon Dec 12 23:41:48 CET 2005


On Dec 12, 2005, at 10:02 AM, Zhi Peng wrote:

> What was the .pyo file on Mac. Could anyone tell me how to make  
> a .pyo file from .py file? Thanks.

.pyo files are generated by the Python interpreter when passed the  
optimize flag.  They're the same thing as .pyc, just stripped of  
docstrings.

-bob



More information about the Pythonmac-SIG mailing list