Why compile Python code?

Question

Why would you compile a Python script? You can run them directly from the .py file and it works fine, so is there a performance advantage or something?

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Answer 1

As already mentioned, you can get a performance increase from having your python code compiled into bytecode. This is usually handled by python itself, for imported scripts only.

Another reason you might want to compile your python code, could be to protect your intellectual property from being copied and/or modified.

You can read more about this in the Python documentation.