Message6223

Sorry, I was actually lazy when creating the report.

This code (from compileall.py) is the culprit:

 56             if tail == '.py': 
 57                 cfile = fullname + (__debug__ and 'c' or 'o') 
 58                 ftime = os.stat(fullname).st_mtime 
 59                 try: ctime = os.stat(cfile).st_mtime 
 60                 except os.error: ctime = 0 
 61                 if (ctime > ftime) and not force: continue 

It seems to me that this is copied from Python stdlib directly and it checks for existence of .pyc/.pyo files when determining whether to compile or not.