On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 14:03:12 +1100, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > Since you've done these tests already, perhaps you can tell us what gain > you actually got?
About the same as you, ~20 msecs for my small script samples. > Of course you have to type the "c". You're not deleting the source files > away are you? *wink* Sorry, the wink is lost on me? Of course I am not deleting the sources. In fact, I am also talking about python scripts being called from shell scripts. I guess I'm just surprised that the python installation does not provide a small stub invoker, e.g: A small script called "python_compile_and_run" in "pseudo" code: #!/usr/bin/env python import sys # Following is invalid syntax unfortunately :( from sys.argv[1].rstrip('.py') import main sys.argv = sys.argv[1:] if __name__ == "__main__": main() so I could just do a "python_compile_and_run myscript.py" and it would do what I want, i.e. run myscript.pyc if available and valid, generate and run it if necessary. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list