say your code is "test.py" and you usually run it as "python test.py", then the "-O" option will generate .pyo files. That is "python -O test.py"
Cheers maurice skn wrote: > Hello., > > Does the python compiler provide an option to generate a .pyo(optimized byte > code file) from a .py (source file)? > > For generating .pyc I know that I only have to pass the source file name as > an argument to py_compile.py. > But for generating .pyo, I could not find anything. > > Any clues/help will be greatly appreciated. > > With best regards, > skn > > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list