[Ironpython-users] py_compile.compile() constant error (unable to generate a .pyc file)

[John Trinder]

What do you mean 'save off assemblies'? I looked at 'ipy -h' as you 
suggested but couldn't find anything of ehlp. I tried 'ipy -O file.py' 
but no optimised file (file.pyo) was generated.
Thanks for the response btw.

[Re] IronPython doesn't support pyc files. There is a way to save off 
assemblies, if you run ipy with -h it should tell you how.

On Jul 21, 2014 2:36 AM, "John Trinder" <TrinderJohn at dsl.pipex.com 
<mailto:TrinderJohn at dsl.pipex.com>> wrote:
If I try to compile a .pyc file doing the following, I get:

 >>> import py_compile as p
 >>> p.compile('dummy.py')
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
   File "D:\Programming\IronPython 2.7\Lib\py_compile.py", line 126, in 
compile
     marshal.dump(codeobject, fc)
ValueError: unmarshallable object

where 'dummy.py' is a simple test file consisting of:
a = 1

I seem to have noticed that whenever files are imported in a session 
that no .pyc files are automatically generated.
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