Hi, the patch only removes them if one adds the --pyc option.
I think it is a good idea to have some option or target somewhere to
remove the types of files that can be regenerated because often
developers want to "get them out of the way". Example: I'll be working
on a project in my code directory, and it's nice to be able to do an "$
ls" without seeing extra files lying that clutter up the view. Perhaps
different people want to remove them for different reasons. I remember
searching for "remove .pyc" or something like it and it returned some
hits from other people wanting similar functionality. Thanks for your
time, I hope you include something like this patch in upstream.

_J