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From: Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu>
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Subject: Re: py_compile vs. built-in compile, with __future__
Date: 11 Jun 2013 15:37:17 GMT
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On 2013-06-10, dhyams <dhyams@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Monday, June 10, 2013 6:36:04 PM UTC-4, Chris Angelico wrote:
>> Can you read the file into a string, prepend a future directive, and
>> 
>> then compile the string?
>
> Technically yes, except that now there is complication of
> writing the modified module back to a file so that I can still
> use py_compile.compile() to byte compile that code.

You would use StringIO instead of writing a temp file.

-- 
Neil Cerutti