Python: Compile all modules

By using the module 'compileall', you can compile all the python files in a directory. ‘python3.5 -m compileall .’ statement compile all the python files in current directory and place all the compiled files in the directory __pycache__.

$ ls
arithmetic.py main.py
$ 
$ python3.5 -m compileall .
Listing '.'...
Compiling './arithmetic.py'...
Compiling './main.py'...
$ 
$ ls
__pycache__ arithmetic.py main.py
$ 
$ ls -l __pycache__/
total 16
-rw-r--r--  1 harikrishna_gurram  myDomain Users  530 Oct 16 11:37 arithmetic.cpython-35.pyc
-rw-r--r--  1 harikrishna_gurram  myDomain Users  401 Oct 16 11:37 main.cpython-35.pyc

References

https://docs.python.org/3/library/compileall.html

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