Stop Python from generating pyc files in shebang [duplicate]

Question

Is there a way to stop python from creating .pyc files, already in the shebang (or magic number if you will) of the Python script?

Not working:

#!/usr/bin/env python -B

Answer 1

it is possible by putting your python interperter path directly in the she bang instead of using env.

#!/usr/bin/python -B

of course this means you lose out on some of the portability benefits of using env. There is a discussion of this issue with env on the wikipedia Shebang page. They use python as one of their env examples.