If you have a file with say a hundred functions, and each function contains the full path of that file on disk, your pyc file will contain about (100*(path_size+overhead)) bytes. In some cases, this is pretty significant. <div>
<br><div><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 12:47 PM, Benjamin Peterson <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:report@bugs.python.org">report@bugs.python.org</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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Benjamin Peterson &lt;<a href="mailto:benjamin@python.org">benjamin@python.org</a>&gt; added the comment:<br>
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How exactly does it bring down your disk space?<br>
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