06-20-2013
The scientific and high performance computing distributions generally offer Python as prt of the standard install. Search the distrowatch.com site for examples.
Mind you, these are distributions that have a custom made install script that happens to include Python and some Python libraries. There is obviously nothing stopping you from writing a script of your own on top of a bare bones Linux installation.
The BSD ecosystem generally does not have Python upon installation.
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py3compile
PY3COMPILE(1) PY3COMPILE(1)
NAME
py3compile - byte compile Python 3 source files
SYNOPSIS
py3compile [-V [X.Y][-][A.B]] DIR_OR_FILE [-X REGEXPR]
pycompile -p PACKAGE
DESCRIPTION
Wrapper around Python standard library's py_compile module to byte-compile Python 3 files.
OPTIONS
--version
show program's version number and exit
-h, --help
show this help message and exit
-f, --force
force rebuild of byte-code files even if timestamps are up-to-date
-O byte-compile to .pyo files
-q, --quiet
be quiet
-v, --verbose
turn verbose mode on
-p PACKAGE, --package=PACKAGE
specify Debian package name whose files should be bytecompiled
-V VRANGE
force private modules to be bytecompiled with Python 3 version from given range, regardless of the default Python 3 version in the
system. If there are no other options, bytecompile all public modules for installed Python 3 versions that match given range. VER-
SION_RANGE examples:
o 3.1 version 3.1 only,
o 3.1- version 3.1 or newer,
o 3.1-3.3 version 3.1 or 3.2,
o -4.0 all supported 3.X versions
-X REGEXPR, --exclude=REGEXPR
exclude items that match given REGEXPR. You may use this option multiple times to build up a list of things to exclude
AUTHOR
Piotr Oarowski, 2012-2013
PY3COMPILE(1)