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py_compilefiles - byte-compile python .py files

py_compilefiles [options] [file ...] [-]

py_compilefiles compiles Python .py source files into .pyc or .pyo bytecode format.

• -f
      force rebuild even if timestamps are up-to-date.
• -i
      ignore errors on byte compilation.
• -q
      quiet operation.
• -x regexp
      skip files matching the regular expression regexp the regexp is search for in the full path of the file.

If a filename is given as a minus sign (-), a list of files separated by newline is read from standard input.

Matthias Klose, Bastian Kleineidam