Changing the directory where .pyc files are created

Question

Is there a way to change the directory where .pyc file are created by the Python interpreter? I saw two PEPs about that subject (0304 and 3147), but none seems

Answer 1

Yes, starting from Python 3.8 you can control this behavior. The original discussion starts from pep 304 in 2003.

While this original PEP was withdrawn, a variant of this feature was eventually implemented for Python 3.8 in https://bugs.python.org/issue33499

In the result, you can control using PYTHONPYCACHEPREFIX=path, -X pycache_prefix=path and sys.pycache_prefix.