[Pythonmac-SIG] MacPython and .pyc files

Bob Ippolito bob at redivi.com
Sat Aug 28 23:17:31 CEST 2004


On Aug 28, 2004, at 5:09 PM, Rodney Somerstein wrote:

> I am learning to use Python under Mac OS 10.3.5 and Python 2.3. 
> Despite what Learning Python tells me, Python doesn't seem to generate 
> .pyc files. What changes do I need to make in order to have this 
> happen? I suspect it is some kind of simple Unix permissions issue to 
> allow Python to write the files.

It generates .pyc files when appropriate, you really shouldn't worry 
about it.

This part of the tutorial has a little more information:
http://docs.python.org/tut/node8.html#SECTION008120000000000000000

-bob


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