"""Routine to "compile" a .py file to a .pyc (or .pyo) file. This module has intimate knowledge of the format of .pyc files. """ import imp MAGIC = imp.get_magic() def wr_long(f, x): """Internal; write a 32-bit int to a file in little-endian order.""" f.write(chr( x & 0xff)) f.write(chr((x >> 8) & 0xff)) f.write(chr((x >> 16) & 0xff)) f.write(chr((x >> 24) & 0xff)) def compile(file, cfile=None, dfile=None): """Byte-compile one Python source file to Python bytecode. Arguments: file: source filename cfile: target filename; defaults to source with 'c' or 'o' appended ('c' normally, 'o' in optimizing mode, giving .pyc or .pyo) dfile: purported filename; defaults to source (this is the filename that will show up in error messages) Note that it isn't necessary to byte-compile Python modules for execution efficiency -- Python itself byte-compiles a module when it is loaded, and if it can, writes out the bytecode to the corresponding .pyc (or .pyo) file. However, if a Python installation is shared between users, it is a good idea to byte-compile all modules upon installation, since other users may not be able to write in the source directories, and thus they won't be able to write the .pyc/.pyo file, and then they would be byte-compiling every module each time it is loaded. This can slow down program start-up considerably. See compileall.py for a script/module that uses this module to byte-compile all installed files (or all files in selected directories). """ import os, marshal, __builtin__ f = open(file) try: timestamp = long(os.fstat(f.fileno())[8]) except AttributeError: timestamp = long(os.stat(file)[8]) codestring = f.read() # If parsing from a string, line breaks are \n (see parsetok.c:tok_nextc) # Replace will return original string if pattern is not found, so # we don't need to check whether it is found first. codestring = codestring.replace("\r\n","\n") codestring = codestring.replace("\r","\n") f.close() if codestring and codestring[-1] != '\n': codestring = codestring + '\n' try: codeobject = __builtin__.compile(codestring, dfile or file, 'exec') except SyntaxError, detail: import traceback, sys lines = traceback.format_exception_only(SyntaxError, detail) for line in lines: sys.stderr.write(line.replace('File ""', 'File "%s"' % (dfile or file))) return if not cfile: cfile = file + (__debug__ and 'c' or 'o') fc = open(cfile, 'wb') fc.write('\0\0\0\0') wr_long(fc, timestamp) marshal.dump(codeobject, fc) fc.flush() fc.seek(0, 0) fc.write(MAGIC) fc.close() if os.name == 'mac': import macfs macfs.FSSpec(cfile).SetCreatorType('Pyth', 'PYC ')