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No, in fact, Python will use the .pyc file preferably and only access the .py file if it a) exists and b) is newer than the .pyc file.
This allows you to distribute a Python app in compiled form without the source code (although it’s not much of a code “obfuscation” technique).
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Nope, Python is (intentionally, see below) dumb about this! You can run
find . -name '*.pyc' -delete
from your project directory to get rid of old .pyc files.
If you’re using git, you can set up a hook to do this automatically on checkout. Here’s a similar solution for Mercurial.
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The thing you can do to prevent this is to start django with
python -B manage.py runserver
or to automate deletion of pyc, probably with clean_pyc from django-extensions
./manage.py clean_pyc
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