kepo-ing Zz85

Not too sure how much this would help in debugging python scripts, but at least it tells you any syntax errors before a long script runs for an hour before throwing an error.

Here’s the code

# compile.py
import py_compile, sys
py_compile.compile(sys.argv[1])

Here’s a sample python script

# helloworld.py
print “Hello World!”

Here’s an example to compile it
$ python ./compile.py ./helloworld.py

Running this generates a bytecode file called helloworld.pyc which could be run
$ python ./helloworld.pyc

python could also be used with the flag “-O” for optimize generated bytecode

>>> exit()