[Tutor] Using __import__ and byte-compiling

[Tim Johnson]

I am currently using the __import__ function to do
conditional importing of modules, whose names are determined
at runtime.

It appears the __import__ does not handle byte-compiling,
or at least it is not being done in my current implementation. From reading 
the __import__ documentation, I don't see any options that handle 
byte-compiles implicitly.

It follows then that I might want to use the py_compile module
with the follow method: (pseudo code example follows)
## ====================================
if exists module.pyc and 
     (timestamp for module.pyc) < (timestamp for module.py)
  then compile module.py
else  ## module.pyc does not exist
  compile module.py
## ====================================
Or is there a python asset that handles this?
cheers
tim

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