I have a requirement to prevent 'accidental' tampering with some software written in Python. If I ensure that all of the modules concerned are compiled into .pyc's, and remove the .py's to another location, then I should be safe until the next upgrade of the Python interpretter.
My questions:
Are the .pyc's usable without recompilation between 'minor' releases of the interpretter (e.g., 2.3.1 -> 2.3.2 -> etc)?
I presume that the .pyc's are NOT compatible across more major releases (e.g., 2.3.x -> 2.4.x)?
Is there a hard and fast rule about compatibility across releases that I can rely on?
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