compilation

[Frédéric van der Plancke]

In article <8jfc7h$so4$1 at bmerhc5e.ca.nortel.com>,
  msoulier at nortelnetworks.com wrote:
> In article <8jdi5s$om4$1 at nnrp1.deja.com>, Frédéric van der Plancke
wrote:
> >
> >When the interpreter finds a xxx.pyc file on your Python path when
> >you type 'import xxx', it loads that directly instead of recompiling
> >xxx.py  (provided xxx.py is older, and other soundness conditions)
> >
> >Is that what you want ?
>
> 	Umm, sort of. I guess the top-level script still has to be a
.py file.

I don't think it is needed. Python can check if a .pyc already exists
for your top-level script. But I'm not 100% sure...

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