syntax checker in python

[horos11]

ps - I just realized that it isn't enough to do:

python -c 'import /path/to/script'

since that actually executes any statement inside of the script
(wheras all I want to do is check syntax)

So - let me reprhase that - exactly how can you do a syntax check in
python? Something like perl's -c:

     perl -c script_name.p

Ed