Up to now, I've had all my python scripts defined in XML elements, which were compiled when my program started up using Py_CompileString. This has worked great, but I'm finding that most of the time my app uses to start up is spent in that Py_CompileString, because of the large number of scripts that I use.
Unfortunately, storing these scripts as .pyc files on disk is not an option for me. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list