py_compile vs. built-in compile, with __future__
dhyams
dhyams at gmail.com
Tue Jun 11 17:25:35 EDT 2013
On Tuesday, June 11, 2013 11:37:17 AM UTC-4, Neil Cerutti wrote:
> On 2013-06-10, dhyams <dhyams at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Monday, June 10, 2013 6:36:04 PM UTC-4, Chris Angelico wrote:
>
> >> Can you read the file into a string, prepend a future directive, and
>
> >>
>
> >> then compile the string?
>
> >
>
> > Technically yes, except that now there is complication of
>
> > writing the modified module back to a file so that I can still
>
> > use py_compile.compile() to byte compile that code.
>
>
>
> You would use StringIO instead of writing a temp file.
>
I don't think that would work...py_compile takes a filename as input, not a file object.
More information about the Python-list
mailing list