On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 12:42 AM, Frederic Rentsch <anthra.nor...@bluewin.ch> wrote: <snip> > If I run from a terminal things seem to work out. Is it standard > development practice to run code from a terminals ($ python program.py)? > What's the 'program.pyc' for if the source is compiled every time?
The entire point of .pyc files is to avoid unnecessary re-byte-compilation from source code when possible: http://docs.python.org/tutorial/modules.html#compiled-python-files (i.e. there are times where the source is *not* recompiled.) Cheers, Chris -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
