#! shbang for pyc files?

[Jeff Epler]

On Linux, you can use binfmt_misc to recognize pyc/pyo files by magic
number and execute them directly.  This was mentioned in some long-ago
release notes.  The magic number is different in newer versios of
Python.

    - The interpreter accepts now bytecode files on the command line even
      if they do not have a .pyc or .pyo extension. On Linux, after executing

      echo ':pyc:M::\x87\xc6\x0d\x0a::/usr/local/bin/python:' > /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc/register

      any byte code file can be used as an executable (i.e. as an argument
      to execve(2)).
        [http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2001-January/012044.html]

Long ago I wrote and submitted a patch to make Python recognize files
with a #! line followed by the magic number, but there seemed to be no
interest.
    http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=slrn5jako1.15i.jepler%40craie.inetnebr.com&output=gplain

Having
    #!/usr/bin/env python
    import myapp
    myapp.main()
really won't spend much time byte-compiling, so normally it's not worth
worrying about.

Jeff
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