Generating .pyc/.pyo from a make file

Roland Heiber newstonne at web.de
Wed Feb 2 18:21:43 EST 2005


Tim Daneliuk wrote:
> It does - thanks.  One more question:  Are pyc and pyo file portable
> across operating systems?  I suspect not since I generated a pyo
> on a FreeBSD machine that will not run on a Win32 machine.  I was
> under the impression that "compiled" meant optimized byte code that
> was portable across implementations, but it looks to not be the case...
> 

Hi,

.pyc's should be, cause it's standard python-bytecode, if you use 
massive optimizations it depends not on the os but on the underlying 
cpu/architecture ...

So long, Roland



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