[PythonCE] Python 2.3 distribution for Windows/CE

[Guido Wesdorp]

Jeff Bauer wrote:

>Guido,
>
>Yes the .pyc files will work.  Back when I was doing
>some work on the earlier CE devices, I would precompile
>my code and transfer the .pyc files over to execute.
>Everything ran much faster that way.
>  
>
I think that's what the 2.2 I currently have installed on my pocket pc 
does as well, probably mainly to get the dist smaller (the files will be 
created if they don't exist, so they will end up in the dir anyway, as 
opposed to the source files). I'll keep it in mind, perhaps I will 
create a version with and one without the sources or so...

>I don't do Windows CE anymore, but I was curious.  Now that
>Python 2.3 supports importing from .zip files, it would appear
>that zip archives would be a pretty good way to distribute code,
>assuming the decompression doesn't slow things down much.
>  
>
Well, I'll try to look into it, to be honest I haven't checked out the 
feature at all... Perhaps it can be useful for a CE distribution, I 
assume the loading speed of modules isn't the main issue on pocket pc 
anyway ;)

Cheers,

Guido