__pycache__, one more good reason to stck with Python 2?

[Alice Bevan–McGregor]

On 2011-01-19 13:01:04 -0800, Steven D'Aprano said:
> I know I've seen problems executing .pyc files from the shell in the 
> past... perhaps I was conflating details of something else. Ah, I know!
> 
> [steve at sylar ~]$ chmod u+x toto.pyc
> [steve at sylar ~]$ ./toto.pyc
> : command not found ��
> ./toto.pyc: line 2: syntax error near unexpected token `('
> ./toto.pyc: line 2: `P7Mc at s     dGHdS(tfooN((((s        ./
> toto.py<module>s'

... don't do that.  I do not know why that would be expected to work, 
ever.  (Unless you're crafty and wrap a real shell script around the 
.pyc, in which case it's no longer a .pyc.)

	— Alice.