The py_compile module provides a function to generate a byte-code file from a source file, and another function used when the module source file is invoked as a script.
Though not often needed, this function can be useful when installing modules for shared use, especially if some of the users may not have permission to write the byte-code cache files in the directory containing the source code.
file[, cfile[, dfile[, doraise]]]) |
+
'c'
('o'
if optimization is enabled in the
current interpreter). If dfile is specified, it is used as
the name of the source file in error messages instead of file.
If doraise is true, a PyCompileError is raised when
an error is encountered while compiling file. If doraise
is false (the default), an error string is written to sys.stderr
,
but no exception is raised.
[args]) |
When this module is run as a script, the main() is used to compile all the files named on the command line.
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