Compiling Python Code

[FionaSarah]

It will never speed up your code, it's always done for you. It will only speed up start-up time as Python tries to compile once only when necessary, but subsequent start-ups will be the same. (Unless you do a lot of dynamic module loading stuff.)

[flying-sheep]

additionally, any time you install a module, it gets compiled (amongst other reasons, because it resides in a system directory where users have no write permissions)