In article <mailman.1731.1360717275.2939.python-l...@python.org>, Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benja...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 13 February 2013 00:44, Malcolm White <white....@gmail.com> wrote: > > I have written a piece of code that will be part of a larger repository of > > related programs. Within this repository, it is standard to issue a 'make' > > command to compile any desired program. Is it possible to create a Makefile > > to compile a simple Python program? Based on what I have come across so > > far, this is not (at least not typically) the way things are done with > > Python. > > You can use a Makefile for anything you want in a Python project. > However Python code is not (typically) compiled so it is not common > practise to compile it with or without a Makefile. When part of a > Python project is compiled because, for example it bundles some C code > to be used within Python, the compilation needs to performed in way > that will be compatible with Python so the process is normally > controlled by Python, through a setup.py file. In this case > compilation is done with something like 'python setup.py build' (Of > course there's nothing to stop you from adding that command to a > Makefile and invoking it with 'make'). > > I often use Makefiles in Python projects for other purposes, though, > such as running tests with 'make test' or building documentation with > 'make doc'. One thing we do in our Makefiles is "find . -name '*.pyc' | xargs rm". It avoids all sorts of nasty and hard to track down bugs (consider what happens if you move a .py file from one place in your source tree to another and leave the old .pyc behind). -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
