Compile (but do not run) a Python script

You can use pylint to find syntax errors as well as more subtle errors, such as accessing undefined variables in some rarely-used conditional branch.

py_compile — Compile Python source files

import py_compile
py_compile.compile('my_script.py')

python -m py_compile script.py

One way is to do something like this (for test.py):

python -c "__import__('compiler').parse(open('test.py').read())"

This works for Python 2.x.

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