And yet, almost every random python script I come across does not work on my system, either because of modules or installation layout differences between the au

And yet, almost every random python script I come across does not work on my system, either because of modules or installation layout differences between the authors system and mine, or the passage of a mere few months or a year of time. They are usually fixable of course. Assuming the thing worked on the authors system at all, it's possible to diagnose and fix it up for the current environment. But that has to be done, and sometimes takes more than a few minutes to hunt everything down. And then one day I started seeing these pyc directories appearing out of the blue, right in whatever directory any script happened to be in. The same scripts that didn't do that yesterday. What an awesome thoughtfully engineered system! The argument was not terrible, it was plain lived experience fact.