[Zope] Beginner question: how to compile Python component?

Zope 2.6.1, running direct (no Apache proxy) from Linux. I have a problem with awstats, a log analyser, reading the Zope Z2.log files. Web search suggests the problem is a spurious space in the http_server.py file. I have fixed the space but presumably I need to do more to make it happen? There is an http_server.pyc file in medusa. All the .pyc files are dated from the date I installed Zope, but I don't want to reinstall everything. Do I? Can I recompile just this file? How? Thanks for any help you can offer. Mark Barratt