On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 1:31 AM, Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> wrote: > Krishnakant <hackin...@gmail.com> writes: > >> My Basic question is that, what package directory is Standard as far >> as all gnu/linux distros are concerned? > > Python has a habit of generating, and expecting to find, > platform-specific files (‘foo.pyo’ extension modules)
Erm, .pyo-s aren't platform-specific. According to http://docs.python.org/dev/tutorial/modules.html#compiled-python-files : When the Python interpreter is invoked with the -O flag, optimized code is generated and stored in .pyo files. The optimizer currently doesn’t help much; it only removes assert statements. Passing two -O flags to the Python interpreter (-OO) will cause the bytecode compiler to perform optimizations that could in some rare cases result in malfunctioning programs. Currently only __doc__ strings are removed from the bytecode, resulting in more compact .pyo files. A program doesn’t run any faster when it is read from a .pyc or .pyo file than when it is read from a .py file; the only thing that’s faster about .pyc or .pyo files is the speed with which they are loaded. It's not like .pyo-s are compiled C extension modules. Cheers, Chris -- I have a blog: http://blog.rebertia.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
