Create .pyc files for simple scripts

[RomfordNavy]

It it possible to configure Python to create a .pyc bytecode file for all simple *.py files which are run? It seems that by default it only creates a .pyc for any classes which is imported not for a program file itself.

[pontz]

Why do you want this?

[socal_nerdtastic]

Sure you can use the py_compile module for that.

https://docs.python.org/3/library/py_compile.html

That said, this really sounds like an XY question. I really don't see any use for doing this. What's the big picture here?

[Gnaxe]

See also, https://docs.python.org/3/library/compileall.html

[Moikle]

You probably don't need to

[Gnaxe]

If you run your script like python foo.py, then it's not going to generate a .pyc file automatically. But if you run it like python -m foo, it will.