26 May
2000
26 May
'00
4:39 a.m.
Greg> Arrghh! This means that Distutils will either have to Greg> check/convert line-endings at build-time (hey, finally, a good Greg> excuse for the "build_py" command), or implicitly compile modules Greg> by importing them (instead of using 'py_compile.compile()').
I don't think you can safely compile modules by importing them. You have no idea what the side effects of the import might be.
How about fixing py_compile.compile() instead?
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