slpkg & tar2xzm > txz2xzm

[ncmprhnsbl]

yeah, had i looked little harder, i would have noticed that *.pyc and *.pyo s are stripped

[Ed_P]

"stripped"?? They do look "strange" in Text Editor, hex and text show, but all 3 are 90kb.

[ncmprhnsbl]

"stripped"??

as in removed in the porteus build process.
if you compare the slackware python2 package with what's in porteus, you'll see lots of unecessary stuff removed..

[Ed_P]

Yes, and so too the pydoc.py file and it is obviously needed. What about the hex stuff in the other two pydoc files? Are they corrupt or does it serve a purpose?

[donald]

What about ...the other two pydoc files?
Are they corrupt or does it serve a purpose?

Some quotes from the i-net
(personally, I know next to nothing about python)

.py - Regular script
.pyc - compiled script (Bytecode)
.pyo - optimized pyc file (As of Python3.5, Python will only use pyc rather than pyo and pyc)

.py: This is normally the input source code that you've written.
.pyc: This is the compiled bytecode. If you import a module, python will build a *.pyc file
that contains the bytecode to make importing it again later easier (and faster).
.pyo: This is a *.pyc file that was created while optimizations (-O) was on.

A program doesn't run any faster when it is read from a ‘.pyc’ or ‘.pyo’ file than when it is read
from a ‘.py’ file; the only thing that's faster about ‘.pyc’ or ‘.pyo’ files
is the speed with which they are loaded.

[Ed_P]

Thank you donald.

(personally, I know next to nothing about python)

I can relate. I didn't know python was a script language like bash until 2 months ago.

.py - Regular script
.pyc - compiled script (Bytecode)
.pyo - optimized pyc file (As of Python3.5, Python will only use pyc rather than pyo and pyc)

"use pyc rather than pyo and pyc"!!? Interesting.

A program doesn't run any faster when it is read from a ‘.pyc’ or ‘.pyo’ file than when it is read
from a ‘.py’ file; the only thing that's faster about ‘.pyc’ or ‘.pyo’ files
is the speed with which they are loaded.

The 3 files are all ~90kb so I don't see how one will load faster than the others. Anyways, interesting quotes donald.