On 19 Jan 2011 14:42:14 GMT Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 00:58:14 -0800, jmfauth wrote: > > > It is now practically impossible to launch a Python application via a > > .pyc file. > > > When has that ever been possible? > > > .pyc files are Python byte-code. You can't run them directly using Python > (except via the import machinery), you can't run them as a script, > they're not machine code. Unless you write a wrapper to import the file > as a module, you can't directly execute .pyc files.
It seems to work here: $ echo "print 'foo'" > toto.py $ python -m compileall -l . Listing . ... Compiling ./toto.py ... $ rm toto.py $ python toto.pyc foo But it still works under 3.2 even though the incantation is less pretty: $ echo "import sys; print(sys.version)" > toto.py $ __svn__/python -m compileall -l . Listing . ... Compiling ./toto.py ... $ rm toto.py $ __svn__/python __pycache__/toto.cpython-32.pyc 3.2rc1+ (py3k:88095M, Jan 18 2011, 17:12:15) [GCC 4.4.3] Regards Antoine. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list