To generate bytecode in Python, you don’t need to do anything special. Bytecode is automatically created in the same directory as the .py file, when a module of Python is imported for the first time or when the source file has been modified more recently than the bytecode file.
If you need to generate bytecode in a separate folder, you can use the py_compile module to compile your Python source code to bytecode. Here’s an example of how to do this:
import py_compile
py_compile.compile('example.py', cfile='bytecode/example.pyc')
In this example, example.py is the name of the source file, and bytecode/example.pyc is the name and location where you want to save the generated bytecode file.
Note that it is often best to let Python generate and manage bytecode automatically, as this ensures that the bytecode is always up to date with your source code.
Additionally, it’s important to note that Python bytecode files may contain bytecode for all imported modules, so simply compiling a single file may still generate bytecode files for multiple Python files. Bytecode files will be suffixed with .pyc for normal modules and .pyo for optimized modules.