Need help: Compiling Python-Code

[Michele Simionato]

"Thomas Buschhardt" <thomas.buschhardt at iac-leipzig.de> wrote in message news:<mailman.1058258723.4935.python-list at python.org>...
> import py_compile
> pycompile.compile(Python-file)
> 
> Bye Thomas

I am sure the OP has a good reason for asking his question,
nevertheless for the sake of newbies who wonder if they should
byte-compile their scripts, here is an extract from help(py_compile):

        Note that it isn't necessary to byte-compile Python modules for
        execution efficiency -- Python itself byte-compiles a module when
        it is loaded, and if it can, writes out the bytecode to the
        corresponding .pyc (or .pyo) file.

        However, if a Python installation is shared between users, it is a
        good idea to byte-compile all modules upon installation, since
        other users may not be able to write in the source directories,
        and thus they won't be able to write the .pyc/.pyo file, and then
        they would be byte-compiling every module each time it is loaded.
        This can slow down program start-up considerably.
        

Just my 2 cents,


                      Michele