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Generating bytecode

Jul 5th, 2000 09:59
Nathan Wallace, Hans Nowak, Snippet 43, Charles G Waldman

"""
Packages: arcane_arts.bytecode
"""

"""
> What is the standard way of compiling a source file into bytecode?
> (I'm sure I should know this, but...) AFAICS there is no option that
> makes python do this from the command line...

python -c "import sourcefile"


will load sourcefile.py and produce sourcefile.pyc

(When modules are imported they are automatically bytecompiled)
"""