how to improve simple python shell script (to compile list of files)

[Jari Aalto]

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Please suggest comments how can I make this script to work
from bash. Also how can I skip better the [0] argument from
command line without hte extra variable i?

#!/bin/bash

function compile ()
{
python -c '
import os, sys, py_compile;
i = 0;
for arg in sys.argv:
file = os.path.basename(arg);
dir = os.path.dirname(arg);
i += 1;
if i > 1 and os.path.exists(dir):
os.chdir(dir);
print "compiling %s\n" % (file);
py_compile.compile(file);
' $*
}

compile $(find path/to -type f -name "*.py")

# End of example

The error message reads:

File "<string>", line 2
import os, sys, py_compile;
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Jari

 

[Maarten van Reeuwijk]

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Please suggest comments how can I make this script to work
from bash. Also how can I skip better the [0] argument from
command line without hte extra variable i?

Didn't check, but something like this?

#!/bin/python
import os, sys, py_compile;
i = 0;
for arg in sys.argv:
file = os.path.basename(arg);
dir = os.path.dirname(arg);
i += 1;
if i > 1 and os.path.exists(dir):
os.chdir(dir);
print "compiling %s\n" % (file);
py_compile.compile(file);

 

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

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Please suggest comments how can I make this script to work
from bash. Also how can I skip better the [0] argument from
command line without hte extra variable i?

#!/bin/bash

function compile ()
{
python -c '
import os, sys, py_compile;
i = 0;
for arg in sys.argv:
file = os.path.basename(arg);
dir = os.path.dirname(arg);
i += 1;
if i > 1 and os.path.exists(dir):
os.chdir(dir);
print "compiling %s\n" % (file);
py_compile.compile(file);
' $*
}

Don't indent:

function compile ()
{
python -c '
import os, sys, py_compile;
i = 0;
for arg in sys.argv:
file = os.path.basename(arg);
dir = os.path.dirname(arg);
i += 1;
if i > 1 and os.path.exists(dir):
os.chdir(dir);
print "compiling %s\n" % (file);
py_compile.compile(file);
' $*
}

 

[Jari Aalto]

On 2005-10-15, Jari Aalto wrote:
Don't indent:

function compile ()
{
python -c '
import os, sys, py_compile;
i = 0;
for arg in sys.argv:
file = os.path.basename(arg);
dir = os.path.dirname(arg);
i += 1;
if i > 1 and os.path.exists(dir):
os.chdir(dir);
print "compiling %s\n" % (file);
py_compile.compile(file);
' $*
}

Thanks, is there equivalent to this Perl statement in Python?

@list = @ARGV[1 .. @ARGV];

or something similar so that I could avoid the 1 > 1 (sys.argv) check
altogether?

Jari

 

[Robert Kern]

Thanks, is there equivalent to this Perl statement in Python?

@list = @ARGV[1 .. @ARGV];

or something similar so that I could avoid the 1 > 1 (sys.argv) check
altogether?

for arg in sys.argv[1:]:
...

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