Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Absolutely. I should, of course, have said that only imported modules > have the results of the compilation stored as a .pyc file. > > One must presume this is to save the file write time during development > when the program is almost always different fro the last time you ran it.
Or possibly to save disc space if you have a lot of scripts. I think it is a reasonable compromise: if you are running a script it seems unlikely that you will notice the additional time to compile one script on top of the time to load the interpreter, but if your script imports a few hundred other modules the time to compile them is definitely noticeable. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
