Compiling Python

[TuxTrax]

On Wed, 05 Jun 2002 10:44:43 -0400, Peter Hansen <peter at engcorp.com> wrote:
> TuxTrax wrote:
>> 
>> Hello all
>> 
>> I am new to this forum, and to Python, please excuse the newbie question.
>> 
>> I have started reading the o'reilly book, "learning python" and find python
>> to be an amazing language so far. My first impression of it is a language that
>> is easier than basic to learn and use, and more powerful than many other
>> high level languages such as pascal.
>> 
>> My question is this; I realize that Python compiles to bytecode automatically
>> as part of the interpreters tokenization run, but is there a way to permanently
>> compile python code outputting to an executable binary?
> 
> Why do you want to do that?  For presumably increased speed, or because
> you don't want the hassle of multiple .py files all over the place (in
> other words, better packaging)?
> 
> -Peter

Hi Peter

I was more interested in if there were existing tools to do it, already
available. 

I really don't care to "hide" my source code, as I hail from the open source
Linux community (kind of like "I'm from star fleet, I never lie" <g>)
and I would be releasing any source for any python app that I wrote (that was 
any good <g>) anyway. Besides, if you know others will be seeing your source 
you tend to write cleaner code <g>.

As I noted, it was a newbie question, a matter of curiousity. I am just
starting to learn python and I really love it, and I am full of such
questions that probably others have already gotten past.

Packaging is a thought, but speed (so far) isn't an issue, as python is pretty 
fast IMHO.
 
Cheers,

Mathew

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