#2225: return nonzero status code from py_compile if not all files could be compiled.
diff --git a/Doc/library/py_compile.rst b/Doc/library/py_compile.rst
index de9a80e..77ed8cf 100644
--- a/Doc/library/py_compile.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/py_compile.rst
@@ -42,7 +42,12 @@
structure to locate source files; it only compiles files named explicitly.
When this module is run as a script, the :func:`main` is used to compile all the
-files named on the command line.
+files named on the command line. The exit status is nonzero if one of the files
+could not be compiled.
+
+.. versionchanged:: 2.6
+
+ Added the nonzero exit status.
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