On Nov 4, 2004, at 6:39 AM, Michele Simionato wrote:
> I also have a question/curiosity about
> PTL files; I would imagine PTL
> files to be converted into regular
> python at import time and bytecompiled
> once. So I would expect .pltc files to be
> actually .pyc files. Is that true? And
> if not, what is the difference?
>

They have the same format.

By the way, make sure that you never have foo.py*
and foo.ptl in the same directory.  This can happen,
for instance, when you convert an existing .py file into
a .ptl file, and forget to remove the .pyc.