[Distutils] Optimize option for windows exe scripts?

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 08:08 AM 6/29/2006 -0500, Patrick K. O'Brien wrote:
>Is there a way to have the Windows .exe created by setuptools use
>optimized Python, like "python -O myscript.py"?

Not at the moment, no.

I'm thinking that future versions of setuptools will need to provide more 
control over script details like interpreter options, but I haven't done 
much design on it yet.  For now, I would suggest setting the PYTHONOPTIMIZE 
environment variable as a workaround.