This module provides some utility functions to support installing Python libraries. These functions compile Python source files in a directory tree, allowing users without permission to write to the libraries to take advantage of cached byte-code files.
The source file for this module may also be used as a script to
compile Python sources in directories named on the command line or in
sys.path
.
dir[, maxlevels[, ddir[, force[, rx[, quiet]]]]]) |
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. If ddir is given, it is used as the base path from
which the filenames used in error messages will be generated. If
force is true, modules are re-compiled even if the timestamps
are up to date.
If rx is given, it specifies a regular expression of file names to exclude from the search; that expression is searched for in the full path.
If quiet is true, nothing is printed to the standard output in normal operation.
[skip_curdir[, maxlevels[, force]]]) |
sys.path
.
If skip_curdir is true (the default), the current directory is
not included in the search. The maxlevels and
force parameters default to 0
and are passed to the
compile_dir() function.
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