R. David Murray added the comment:
The only reason to call py_compile is to get byte code. Honoring
PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE would, IMO, be a bug, at least according to its
documentation (by implication, it isn't explicit about it, and perhaps it
should be).
Your use case could be added as a feature by adding a command line option to
py_compile, but that would be 3.6 only.
On the other hand, you can achieve your use case via the following:
python -B -c 'import $MYFILE'
(without the '.py' on the end, obviously).
which is actually shorter, so at first I was inclined to just reject that as
unneeded. (In a Makefile you'd want to CD to the directory or put the
directory on the PYTHONPATH, which makes it slightly longer but not much.)
py_compile has an interesting little bug, though: if you pass it a script name,
it will happily create an *invalid* .pyc file (eg: python -m py_compile results
in a tempcpython-36.pyc file). compileall on the other hand just ignores files
that don't end in .py, which is also a bit odd when the file is named
explicitly on the path. So I suppose that's a bug too.
But absent py_compile's bug, there's no easy way that I know of to "syntax
check" a *script* without executing it. So this is probably a worthwhile
enhancement.
Note: if we were designing this from scratch we might decide that honoring
-B/PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE was the right way to spell this, but since we are
not, I don't think we can change py_compile's behavior in this regard for
backward compatibility reasons, so adding an option to py_compile seems the
best course.
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nosy: +r.david.murray
stage: -> needs patch
type: -> enhancement
versions: +Python 3.6 -Python 3.5
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