Python plugin: ship pyc files only

[Omer Akram]

Currently snapcraft bytecompiles .py files as part of the Python plugin, this is done to fasten startup time of snaps. Doing that increases the size of the snap, something that could be avoided.

The snap should only ship pyc file and remove .py files.

How to achieve that ?

1. pip install --no-compile
2. python3 -m compileall -b
3. find . -name '*.py' -type f -exec rm {} \;

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

I created a pull request that uses the technique above but is only relevant to the Snapcraft snap https://github.com/snapcore/snapcraft/pull/2843

We can update the Python plugin later...