how to improve simple python shell script (to compile list offiles)

[Fredrik Lundh]

Jari Aalto wrote:

> Thanks, but that will not work. The files are gathered from discrete
> places

really?  so what is that "find" command doing in your code ?

    compile $(find path/to -type f -name "*.py")

seems to me as if

    python -mcompileall path/to

would do exactly what your script does...

(if you really think that find does something that compileall or os.walk
cannot do, you can fix your script by fixing the identation.  the quickest
way to do that is to insert an if-statement:

    ...
    function compile ()
    {
        python -c '
if 1: # python code has to start in column 0
        import os, sys, py_compile
        i = 0
    ...

)

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