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

Yep, performance is the main reason and, as far as I know, the only reason.

If some of your files aren't getting compiled, maybe Python isn't able to write to the .pyc file, perhaps because of the directory permissions or something. Or perhaps the uncompiled files just aren't ever getting loaded... (scripts/modules only get compiled when they first get loaded)