Deformed Form

[Ethan Furman]

Stephen Hansen wrote:
> On 6/12/10 12:50 PM, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> 
>>On Sat, 12 Jun 2010 14:42:27 -0400, Victor Subervi
>><victorsubervi at gmail.com> declaimed the following in
>>gmane.comp.python.general:
>>
>>
>>>Interestingly,
>>>ls -al
>>>reveals *no* *.pyc files.
>>>
>>
>>	Which would seem to indicate that you have no user modules that are
>>imported into other modules when run. And that there is no sharing of
>>data between the modules you have.
> 
> 
> Not really; pyc file generation is "optional". Its a performance
> enhancement, but if it doesn't work, there's no problem.
> 
> No pyc files indicates to me that the web process doesn't have *write*
> access to this directory, which is actually entirely fine and dandy. I'd
> just pre-compile them all first, because otherwise Python has to read
> the original source, parse and build up bytecode for each file every
> request.
> 
> I'd "python -m compileall -f ." whenever you edit a file and before testing.


I thought python (well, cpython, at least) didn't use .pyc files for the 
main script?

~Ethan~