Add an "optimize" parameter to compile() to control the optimization level, and provide an interface to it in py_compile, compileall and PyZipFile.
diff --git a/Doc/library/py_compile.rst b/Doc/library/py_compile.rst
index c6eea84..b5b9010 100644
--- a/Doc/library/py_compile.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/py_compile.rst
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
Exception raised when an error occurs while attempting to compile the file.
-.. function:: compile(file, cfile=None, dfile=None, doraise=False)
+.. function:: compile(file, cfile=None, dfile=None, doraise=False, optimize=-1)
Compile a source file to byte-code and write out the byte-code cache file. The
source code is loaded from the file name *file*. The byte-code is written to
@@ -37,6 +37,13 @@
returns the path to byte-compiled file, i.e. whatever *cfile* value was
used.
+ *optimize* controls the optimization level and is passed to the built-in
+ :func:`compile` function. The default of ``-1`` selects the optimization
+ level of the current interpreter.
+
+ .. versionchanged:: 3.2
+ Added the *optimize* parameter.
+
.. function:: main(args=None)