py_compile vs. built-in compile, with __future__

[dhyams]

On Tuesday, June 11, 2013 11:37:17 AM UTC-4, Neil Cerutti wrote:
> On 2013-06-10, dhyams <dhyams at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On Monday, June 10, 2013 6:36:04 PM UTC-4, Chris Angelico wrote:
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> >> Can you read the file into a string, prepend a future directive, and
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> >> 
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> >> then compile the string?
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> > Technically yes, except that now there is complication of
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> > writing the modified module back to a file so that I can still
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> > use py_compile.compile() to byte compile that code.
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> You would use StringIO instead of writing a temp file.
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I don't think that would work...py_compile takes a filename as input, not a file object.