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From: Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Compiling main script into .pyc
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 20:12:56 +0000 (UTC)
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On 2014-01-17, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Jan 2014 23:43:02 -0500, Dave Angel wrote:

> [steve@ando ~]$ cat sample.py
> print("Hello!")
>
> [steve@ando ~]$ ls sample.pyc
> ls: sample.pyc: No such file or directory
> [steve@ando ~]$ python -m compileall sample.py
> Compiling sample.py ...
> [steve@ando ~]$ ls sample.p*
> sample.py  sample.pyc
> [steve@ando ~]$ python sample.pyc
> Hello!

Cool!  Now I can distribute my application as a pre-compiled "binary"
just like I do for <insert language/platform/OS here>.

[That was meant ironically, BTW]

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