The .py file does not need to exist; this simply returns the path to the .pyc file calculated as if the .py file were imported. The 'optimization' parameter controls the presumed optimization level of the bytecode file. If 'optimization' is not None, the string representation of the argument is taken and verified to be alphanumeric (else ValueError is raised). The debug_override parameter is deprecated. If debug_override is not None, a True value is the same as setting 'optimization' to the empty string while a False value is equivalent to setting 'optimization' to '1'. If sys.implementation.cache_tag is None then NotImplementedError is raised. NzFthe debug_override parameter is deprecated; use 'optimization' insteadz2debug_override or optimization must be set to Noner