Something like Perl's -c flag?

[Oleg Broytmann]

On 31 Aug 2001, Mark Atwood wrote:
MA> Does the Python interpreter have anything like Perl's -c flag, which
MA> does a static syntax and sanity check without actually running the
MA> script?

   Just compile the script. Like this:

import sys
from py_compile import compile

if len(sys.argv) <= 1:
   sys.exit(1)

for file in sys.argv[1:]:
   compile(file)

Oleg.
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