Issue #7071: byte-compilation in Distutils now looks at sys.dont_write_bytecode
diff --git a/Lib/distutils/util.py b/Lib/distutils/util.py
index fe6851c..a87ef44 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/util.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/util.py
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
from distutils.spawn import spawn, find_executable
from distutils import log
from distutils.version import LooseVersion
+from distutils.errors import DistutilsByteCompileError
def get_platform():
"""Return a string that identifies the current platform.
@@ -445,6 +446,10 @@
generated in indirect mode; unless you know what you're doing, leave
it set to None.
"""
+ # nothing is done if sys.dont_write_bytecode is True
+ if sys.dont_write_bytecode:
+ raise DistutilsByteCompileError('byte-compiling not supported.')
+
# First, if the caller didn't force us into direct or indirect mode,
# figure out which mode we should be in. We take a conservative
# approach: choose direct mode *only* if the current interpreter is