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\section{\module{py_compile} ---
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Compile Python source files}
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1998-08-11 15:46:25 +00:00
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% Documentation based on module docstrings, by Fred L. Drake, Jr.
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% <fdrake@acm.org>
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\declaremodule[pycompile]{standard}{py_compile}
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\modulesynopsis{Compile Python source files to byte-code files.}
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\indexii{file}{byte-code}
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The \module{py_compile} module provides a single function to generate
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a byte-code file from a source file.
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Though not often needed, this function can be useful when installing
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modules for shared use, especially if some of the users may not have
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permission to write the byte-code cache files in the directory
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containing the source code.
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\begin{funcdesc}{compile}{file\optional{, cfile\optional{, dfile}}}
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Compile a source file to byte-code and write out the byte-code cache
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file. The source code is loaded from the file name \var{file}. The
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byte-code is written to \var{cfile}, which defaults to \var{file}
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\code{+} \code{'c'} (\code{'o'} if optimization is enabled in the
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current interpreter). If \var{dfile} is specified, it is used as
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the name of the source file in error messages instead of \var{file}.
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\end{funcdesc}
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\begin{seealso}
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\seemodule{compileall}{Utilities to compile all Python source files
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in a directory tree.}
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\end{seealso}
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