On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 1:05 PM, Bill Freeman <ke1g...@gmail.com> wrote: > I wouldn't call that "compiling", but it is a step that many people take in > order to make it slightly more convenient to run. > > While "compiling" does happen, it is done automatically as a side effect of > running the program. > > You are apparently not on Windows, since you have a chmod command. > > You can always run the program using: > > python filename.py > > As the python interpreter reads filename.py, it is "compiled" into "byte > codes" which is actually what the python interpreter interprets.
I'd call it compiling, since python itself does! Python ships with a module called 'compileall' to recursively compile all python files within a directory tree. Use it like this: python -m compileall /path/to/directory http://docs.python.org/2/library/compileall.html You can use this to ensure that your pyc files are fresh and pre-compiled before deployment. I normally update files, remove all .pyc/.pyo files, then run compileall as part of a deployment. Removing pyc files may be necessary if you have removed a module, you do not want old stale pyc files. Cheers Tom -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
