On Sun, 13 May 2012 23:36:02 +0200, Irmen de Jong wrote: > On 13-5-2012 23:27, Colin J. Williams wrote: >> Is there some way to ensure that a .pyc file is produced when executing >> a .py file? >> >> It seems that for small files the .pyc file is not produced. >> >> Colin W. > > All modules no matter how small produce a .pyc file *when they are > imported*. If you start a module directly though, no .pyc is produced. > (Notice that Python 3 puts the pyc files in a subdirectory.)
That's only the case for Python 3.2 and higher, not 3.1. You can also use this: python -m compileall to produce .pyc files without waiting for them to be imported. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
