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    Compiling Python Code

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    Python source code is automatically compiled into byte code by the CPython interpreter when imported or executed. To distribute a Python program, you can package either the source (.py) or compiled (.pyc) files. To bundle a Python program into an executable, use a tool like py2exe, cx_Freeze, py2app, or Squeeze. These tools package modules, data files, and create an executable that sets up module importing from the bundled archive. Python's byte code is portable between platforms but not necessarily between Python releases.

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    Python source code is automatically compiled into byte code by the CPython interpreter when imported or executed. To distribute a Python program, you can package either the source (.py) or compiled (.pyc) files. To bundle a Python program into an executable, use a tool like py2exe, cx_Freeze, py2app, or Squeeze. These tools package modules, data files, and create an executable that sets up module importing from the bundled archive. Python's byte code is portable between platforms but not necessarily between Python releases.

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    Python source code is automatically compiled into byte code by the CPython interpreter when imported or executed. To distribute a Python program, you can package either the source (.py) or compiled (.pyc) files. To bundle a Python program into an executable, use a tool like py2exe, cx_Freeze, py2app, or Squeeze. These tools package modules, data files, and create an executable that sets up module importing from the bundled archive. Python's byte code is portable between platforms but not necessarily between Python releases.

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    Compiling Python Code

    Compiling Python Code


    July 12, 2003 | Fredrik Lundh

    Python source code is automatically compiled into Python byte code by the CPython
    interpreter. Compiled code is usually stored in PYC (or PYO) files, and is regenerated
    when the source is updated, or when otherwise necessary.
    To distribute a program to people who already have Python installed, you can ship
    either the PY files or the PYC files. In recent versions, you can also create a ZIP archive
    containing PY or PYC files, and use a small bootstrap script to add that ZIP archive to
    the path.
    To compile a Python program into an executable, use a bundling tool, such as:
    Gordon McMillans installer (cross-platform)
    Thomas Hellers py2exe (Windows)
    Anthony Tuiningas cx_Freeze (cross-platform)
    Bob Ippolitos py2app (Mac)
    These tools puts your modules and data files in an archive file, and creates an
    executable that automatically sets things up so that modules are imported from that
    archive. Some tools can embed the archive in the executable itself.
    If all you need is to wrap up a couple of Python scripts and modules into a single file,
    Squeeze might be what you need. For Windows, my ExeMaker tool can also be quite
    useful (on its own, or in combination with squeeze).

    Compiling Python modules to byte code


    Python automatically compiles Python source code when you import a module, so the
    easiest way to create a PYC file is to import it. If you have a module mymodule.py,
    just do:
    >>> import mymodule

    to create a mymodule.pyc file in the same directory. A drawback is that it doesnt


    only compile the module, it also executes it, which may not be what you want.
    (however, it does compile the entire script even if it fails to execute the script).
    To do this programmatically, and without executing the code, you can use the
    py_compile module:
    import py_compile
    py_compile.compile("mymodule.py")

    Theres also a compileall module which can be used to compile all modules in an
    entire directory tree.
    import compileall
    compileall.compile_dir("mylib", force=1)

    More on byte code


    Pythons byte code is portable between platforms, but not necessarily between Python
    releases. The imp.get_magic() function returns a 4-byte string identifying the byte
    code format used by the current interpreter.
    You can use the compile function and the marshal module to compile Python code
    into code objects, and convert such code objects to binary strings. To reverse this
    process, use marshal to convert from strings to code, and use exec to execute code.
    Examples to be added.
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