Can I Pre-compile A Python Script?

I have a python script. Lets say http://domain.com/hello.py, which only prints 'Hello, World!'. Is it possible to precompile this Python file? I get around 300 requests per secon

Solution 1:

the problem is not that you need to "precompile" python, the problem is that you are trying to execute python scripts using normal cgi script stuff...

the real answer is to use a better web backend than simple cgi to run your python

I would suggest the following in order of appearance

  1. nginx + gnunicorn
  2. apache2 + mod-wsgi
  3. something else
  4. anything else
  ...
n-1. fcgi
  n. cgi

I know this isnt really an answer and is entirely opinion based

Solution 2:

Python code is compiled automatically the first time it is run, by the CPython (standard Python) interpreter. You can pre-compile it if you want to optimize the first request, but that usually isn't necessary. Aside from that, you'd need to convert your Python code into a Python C / cython Module. There are some tools to help you convert Python code into a Python Module if that's the route you want to go.

There's also a Python module called SciPy that's commonly used for Scientific Computing and Data Science applications, which provides a tool called Weave which allows you to inline C/C++ code into your Python code allowing certain performance-critical portions of the code to run using compiled C/C++ code.

Solution 3:

via the python interface where your python source file is abc.py:

1. import py_compile
2. py_compile.compile('abc.py')