On Thu, 2 Nov 2000, Bastian Kleineidam wrote: > >I recently created a debian file for my project (see http://subterfugue.org), > >and discovered just now why including .pyc and .pyo files directly doesn't > >work optimally.
> Where is the problem? Python bytecode should be platform > independent! So it is safe to include .pyc and .pyo files. There is no > need to compile them at configure time. Well, there might be a problem with Python version. While 99% of all Python source code will work with Python 1.5.2, 1.6 and 2.0, the bytecode format has changed, and will probably continue to change when 2.1 comes along.
