On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 1:05 PM, Bill Freeman <[email protected]> wrote: > I wouldn't call that "compiling", but it is a step that many people take in > order to make it slightly more convenient to run. > > While "compiling" does happen, it is done automatically as a side effect of > running the program. > > You are apparently not on Windows, since you have a chmod command. > > You can always run the program using: > > python filename.py > > As the python interpreter reads filename.py, it is "compiled" into "byte > codes" which is actually what the python interpreter interprets.
I'd call it compiling, since python itself does! Python ships with a module called 'compileall' to recursively compile all python files within a directory tree. Use it like this: python -m compileall /path/to/directory http://docs.python.org/2/library/compileall.html You can use this to ensure that your pyc files are fresh and pre-compiled before deployment. I normally update files, remove all .pyc/.pyo files, then run compileall as part of a deployment. Removing pyc files may be necessary if you have removed a module, you do not want old stale pyc files. Cheers Tom -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
