At my workplace we often build Python packages using fpm -s python -t deb. However, this has the negative side effect of the spawned setup.py and subsequent bits generating .pyc files and __pycache ...

A transpiler that converts Python code to LLVM IR and compiles it to machine code. - take-cheeze/pyc ...

However, PYC files are different. They are not human-readable like plaintext PY scripts. PYC files are generated when the Python interpreter imports or executes a Python script.