Baz Walter wrote:
> i thought that python automatically compiled pyc files after a module is
> successfully imported. what could prevent this happening?
>
>
> Python 2.6.1 (r261:67515, Apr 12 2009, 03:51:25)
> [GCC 4.3.2] on linux2
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> >>> import os
> >>> os.mkdir('/home/baz/tmp/foo')
> >>> os.chdir('/home/baz/tmp/foo')
> >>> f = open('foo.py', 'w')
> >>> f.write('print "hello world"\n')
> >>> f.close()
> >>> os.listdir('.')
> ['foo.py']
> >>> import foo
> hello world
> >>> os.listdir('.') # why no pyc file?
> ['foo.py']
> >>> import py_compile
> >>> py_compile.compile('foo.py')
> >>> os.listdir('.')
> ['foo.py', 'foo.pyc']
You did not set the PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE environment variable in a former
life, or did you?
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