On Oct 20, 2008, at 3:24 PM, Neil Schemenauer wrote:

>    * Modules are compiled even if they are not actually used.  That
>      could be annoying if you are part way implementing something.
>
>    * reload() won't work
>
>    * The code does not check .pyc magic.  If you upgrade Python
>      then you might have to remove incompatible .pyc files.  This
>      could be fixed but performance would suffer a little.
>
> How has the QPY scheme worked out in practice?  I think it has the
> same issues


I can confirm that QPY does have the same issues,
but none of them seem very important.
This approach has worked out pretty well for us.