Newbie createing .PYC for import

[Larry Bates]

I have spent the last couple of hours (unsuccessfully) attempting to figure
out how to generate a .PYC file for a module that I've defined.  Everything
appears to imply that it's "automatic", but I'm not getting anywhere.  I
have a module and I wish to generate a .PYC file so that I can import it
into future projects.  Can anyone shed any light on how to accomplish this?

-Larry