max(01)* wrote:
this leads me to another question. since *.pyc files are automatically created the first time an import statement in executed on a given module, i guess that if i ship a program with modules for use in a directory where the user has no write privileges then i must ship the *.pyc files along too. right?
Not required except for performance reasons. If the .pyc files don't exist, the .py files are recompiled and the resulting bytecode is simply held in memory and not cached and the next startup will recompile all over again.
Note also that the main file (the one invoke from the command line) is never cached in a .pyc...
but the other files *are* compiled, right? so the initial question remains unanswered: *if* they are compiled, where are they put, if the corresponding *.py files are on a non-writeable directory?
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