"Miernik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On my Debian GNU/Linux system I have Python 2.3 installed in > /usr/lib/python2.3/ where most Python system files like > > /usr/lib/python2.3/gzip.py > /usr/lib/python2.3/gzip.pyc > /usr/lib/python2.3/gzip.pyo > > live, besides of course /usr/bin/python2.3 > > I noticed that all those files come in three "flavours": > *.py *.pyc *.pyo > > Is it possible that only one "flavour" of these files is needed, and I > can > delete the remaining two, any my Python installation will still work? > > The whole /usr/lib/python2.3/ directory takes up over 15 MB, deleting > two "flavours" would save about 10 MB on my system, and that would help > me much as I am trying to fit my system on a 256 MB SD card, to make it > quiet (hard disks are noisy).
I do not know how Python files are structured on *nix, but it is possible that there are subdirectories that you can eliminate for a runtime system, such as /test. Terry J. Reedy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
