On Aug 7, 1:39 pm, horos11 <horo...@gmail.com> wrote: > ps - I just realized that it isn't enough to do: > > python -c 'import /path/to/script' > > since that actually executes any statement inside of the script > (wheras all I want to do is check syntax) > > So - let me reprhase that - exactly how can you do a syntax check in > python? Something like perl's -c: > > perl -c script_name.p
A quick and dirty way would be to use the py_compile: python -m py_compile /path/to/script Warning: this simply appends "c" to the filename and writes out the compiled file (kind of dumb behavior, actually), so if it's a script you probably want to delete it afterwards: python -m py_compile /path/to/script ; rm -f /path/to/scriptc A little better might be to write a little Python helper script that directs output to nowhere (something like this, feel free to embellish): import py_compile py_compile.compile(sys.argv[1],'/dev/null',None,False) Carl Banks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
