Python generates Pyc files when executing Python (.py) scripts for the first time. You can find it in the Pycache folder. Here’s a path to check the location of it and Pyc files.
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Pyc files in Python
The folder where your Python code you run, there, you can find a folder with the name __Pycache__. This folder is now a storage location for Pyc files. Below example shows, how to generate Pyc files.
~$ vi sample1.py
~$ chmod 777 sample1.py
~$ ./sample1.py
I am inside of the script
~$
In the same location, here’s the Pycache folder.
Location of Pycache folder
~$ ls
2023-11-02-file-1.ipynb 2024-01-04-file-2.term day.csv sample.py sample1.json sample2.sh test.py
2024-01-04-file-1.ipynb __pycache__ sample.db sample.sh sample1.py test.json test1.py
~$ Enter the cd command to move to the Pycache folder.
~$ cd __pycache__
~/__pycache__$ ls
sample.cpython-310.pyc test.cpython-310.pyc test1.cpython-310.pyc
~/__pycache__$
Here, sample1.pyc not created. The reason is we have not compiled, we just executed.After issuing the compile command the Pyc file generated for sample1.py.
~$ python -m compileall sample1.py
~$ cd __pycache__
~/__pycache__$ ls
sample.cpython-310.pyc sample1.cpython-310.pyc test.cpython-310.pyc test1.cpython-310.pyc
~/__pycache__$ 
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