[ python-Bugs-1290382 ] --no-compile option has no effect

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Bugs item #1290382, was opened at 2005-09-13 15:03
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Category: Distutils
Group: Python 2.4
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Tim Peters (tim_one)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: --no-compile option has no effect

Initial Comment:
ZODB ships with a .py file containing a syntax error 
(that's intentional, it's part of a test of the zope.testing 
component).  So, whenever somone does

setup.py install

they see a complaint about this file, like

byte-compiling /home/tim/glom/lib/python2.4/site-
packages/zope/testing/testrunner-
ex/sample2/sampletests_i.py to sampletests_i.pyc
  File "/home/tim/glom/lib/python2.4/site-
packages/zope/testing/testrunner-
ex/sample2/sampletests_i.py", line 15
    importx unittest
                   ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax


That's fine.  The problem is that doing

setup.py install --no-compile

makes no difference -- it still tries to compile everything 
to .pyc.  True at least in Python 2.3.5 and 2.4.1.

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