Minifying the stdlib (in Pyodide)

[encukou (Petr Viktorin)]

Also see here: Disk space minimization for Python distributors

Here’s an easy thing that might save you ~0.3 MB. We haven’t had trouble with it in Fedora:

large auto-generated files ( pydoc_data/topics.py and several encoding modules) are shipped as .pyc only, without source, since the source is not very informative

Your remove_modules.txt doesn’t list test and other Lib/*/tests. That’s implied, right?

@rth

there is very likely still some overhead from extracting individual .py files

Is there?
importlib should never look at the contents of .py files if an up-to-date .pyc is available.