On 13 February 2013 00:44, Malcolm White <white....@gmail.com> wrote: > I have written a piece of code that will be part of a larger repository of > related programs. Within this repository, it is standard to issue a 'make' > command to compile any desired program. Is it possible to create a Makefile > to compile a simple Python program? Based on what I have come across so far, > this is not (at least not typically) the way things are done with Python.
You can use a Makefile for anything you want in a Python project. However Python code is not (typically) compiled so it is not common practise to compile it with or without a Makefile. When part of a Python project is compiled because, for example it bundles some C code to be used within Python, the compilation needs to performed in way that will be compatible with Python so the process is normally controlled by Python, through a setup.py file. In this case compilation is done with something like 'python setup.py build' (Of course there's nothing to stop you from adding that command to a Makefile and invoking it with 'make'). I often use Makefiles in Python projects for other purposes, though, such as running tests with 'make test' or building documentation with 'make doc'. Oscar -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list