On 3/20/2014 1:23 PM, notbob wrote:
What the heck is a .pyc file and how are they created?
.pyc contained compiled bytecode. They are created when, and only when, you import a module. Imported library files are often big and stable, so their compiled forms get cached. Top-level scripts are typically short and often volotile. They may be as short as "from start import run; run()" in order to have as much as possible stored in compiled form.
This has nothing to do with Idle.
I went back to my ~/python/ dir and noticed one .pyc file out of 15 .py files I created from following Learning Python the Hard Way.
That must be the only one you imported. -- Terry Jan Reedy -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
