Compile without execute for syntax check?

[Bernhard Reiter]

The python interpreter in the non inspecting mode(default) finds
some python syntax errors directly before running the code.

Call me old fashioned, but the documentation is not clear about how
to use this build-in syntax check on scripts without executing them.
Nothing in the FAQ ether.

Yes, I should be able to do an
	import py_compile
	py_compile.compile("myscript.py")

which can degenerate into
	python -c "import py_compile; py_compile.compile('myscript.py')"
and might create python bytecode files.
And pythonwin of course has this as a nice button upfront.

So why nothing in the python manpage (where I looked first) in the
FAQ (second) look or in the library documentation?

The answer seems obvious: Just make everything a module then you can
compile it and run the test function in the same moment within
actually doing harm. This is certainly a healthy attitude, but
sometimes I do not want to run a testfunction, I just want the
syntax checked. :)

Just-proposing-another-documentation-improvement-to-learn-the-best-way-ly,
Yours
	Bernhard

ps.: Do I gain speed if I execute script, which I compiled with
py_compile, like "python myscript.pyc"  instead of "python myscript.py"?
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