Magnus Lycka wrote: > If you remove all *.pyc and *.pyo, they will be regenerated as needed. > If your code only uses a small fraction of the standard library, you > will save quite some space here. The only reason they are generated on > installation is to save some runtime on first use of a module, and > perhaps aviod the surprise of an installation that continues to grow > after a completed installation... Another reason is to allow efficient access to python for users who do not have permission to create files (the .pyc and .pyo files) in Python's library directories.
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