compiling .cgi files

[Tim Roberts]

carlhiga at yahoo.com wrote:
>
>I'm running some python cgi scripts that need to have the '.cgi' 
>extension in their filename.
>
>Is there anyway to get them to be byte code compiled? I understand 
>that if they were '.py' files I could simply import them using the 
>interpreter and it would produce the '.pyc' files. But I don't know 
>how to do this with '.cgi' files.

What about this?  It's not too ugly, and the "import" will cause the pyc to
be generated and used.

myscript.cgi:
  #! /usr/bin/python
  import myscript

myscript.py:
  #! /usr/bin/python
  # ... rest of the script ..
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