Compiling on XP home

[Irmen de Jong]

Tim Rowe wrote:
> I'm running Python 2.2.3 on XP Home.  I've just noticed that .pyc
> files are not being created when I execute Python scripts.  I'm
> running as administrator in my own directory, so I have write
> permission.  Does anybody know what's happening?

You have to import them instead of executing them directly:

C:\> python script.py

won't create a script.pyc.

C:\> python -c "import script"

will :-)

--Irmen