[Python-Dev] 2.4 news reaches interesting places (original) (raw)

Skip Montanaro skip at pobox.com
Fri Dec 10 11:49:30 CET 2004 

>> The other thing we can do is finish the portable backend for psyco
>> and make it a standard module.  Then Python won't be slow, it will be
>> compiled, and py2exe will be able to make a single-file executable.

Armin> You probably mean that Psyco can dynamically compile Python
Armin> bytecodes even if they have been hidden into an .exe file by
Armin> py2exe.

I didn't read it that way. My impression was that py2exe be modified to include and enable psyco if it's available when building an .exe. You would, in theory, get a single file distribution as well as dynamic compilation.

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