I'm admittedly not a low-level python guru, but I think its worth asking the question: Do we need .pyo files in our python packages? Guido's book "An Introduction to Python" seems to imply that optimized python files are pretty useless. http://www.network-theory.co.uk/docs/pytut/CompiledPythonfiles.html Currently, brp-python-bytecompile generates both normal (.pyc) and optimized (.pyo) byte-compiled files. The .pyo files are generated with: python -O -c ... The book says: "The optimizer currently doesn't help much; it only removes assert statements. When -O is used, all bytecode is optimized; .pyc files are ignored and .py files are compiled to optimized bytecode." Recently, it was noticed that the .pyo files are almost always identical to the .pyc files, and it was suggested that the two be hardlinked together to save space. Would it be more prudent to just stop generating .pyo files altogether? Note: I'm not pushing for this change to happen in F-7, far too late in the cycle for that, but if there is merit to it, we should consider it for F-8. Thanks in advance, ~spot -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
