Miernik wrote: > I noticed that all those files come in three "flavours": > *.py *.pyc *.pyo > > Is it possible that only one "flavour" of these files is needed, and I can > delete the remaining two, any my Python installation will still work?
If you remove all *.pyc and *.pyo, they will be regenerated as needed. If your code only uses a small fraction of the standard library, you will save quite some space here. The only reason they are generated on installation is to save some runtime on first use of a module, and perhaps aviod the surprise of an installation that continues to grow after a completed installation... I'm not sure about this, but if you have plenty of RAM (you will trade HD noise for fan noise I guess) you might get the *.py[co] files to stay on a RAM disk. (If nothing else works, I guess you could have your system mirror your entire Python directory structure to RAM disk at boot time.) Then you should have a Python system which will get really fast once most modules have been recompiled--until you reboot... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
