[Tutor] site-packages and permissions to byte-compile

[Tim Johnson]

On Monday 29 January 2007 03:17 pm, Dave Kuhlman wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 01:35:22PM -0900, Tim Johnson wrote:
> > Hello:
> >
> > I just installed python 2.5 on Linux/Slackware 10.0
> >
> > I have placed three files in the root of site-packages
> > on my machine that is
> > /usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages
> >
> > python appears to be importing this files with no complaint, but
> > they are not being byte-compiled.
> >
> > Note: I see that MySQLdb files are being byte-compiled.
> > Their ownership is root:root and permissions are 644
> > I've set the same ownership and permissions for the other
> > files to same.
> >
> > What do I need to do to insure that they are byte-compiled?
>
> They do not compile because you are importing these files as a user
> that does not have permission to write in the directory containing
> those modules.
>
> Your Python distribution should have a Python script called
> compileall.py.  You can run that as root to compile *all* the files
> in a directory.

Yes. That was the solution.
Thank you Dave.
tj

> For individual files, there is a module named py_compile.py.  Here
> is an example of its use on my machine:
>
>     $ python /usr/local/lib/python2.5/py_compile.py test_path.py
>
> Again, you will need write privileges to the directory containing
> the module to be compiled (in this case test_path.py).
>
> See the modules py_compile and compileall in the Python standard
> library.
>
> You may notice that when you install Python packages (e.g. using
> setup.py), compiling happens automatically for you.
>
> Another alternative is to put those modules in a directory in which
> you *do* have write access and then add that directory to your
> PYTHONPATH.
>
> Dave