DistUtils and optimized compile

[Michael Ströder]

Thomas Heller wrote:
> 
> [posted and mailed]
> "Michael Ströder" <michael at stroeder.com> wrote in message news:3B375869.E417C833 at stroeder.com...
> >
> > I'd like to use DistUtils for a pure Python module package.
> > Everything seems to be ok so far but when doing python setup.py
> > install only the .pyc byte-code is compiled and installed. I'm
> > missing the .pyo files with the optimized compiled byte-code.
> 
> Use the -O1 or -O2 command line flag:
> python install -O2

???

I already tried
python -O setup.py install
but that did not help.

python setup.py -O install
seems to be invalid.

Ciao, Michael.