Patch #602345 by Neal Norwitz and me: add -B option and PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE envvar to skip writing bytecode.
diff --git a/Doc/using/cmdline.rst b/Doc/using/cmdline.rst
index 5f6bda5..b113c8f 100644
--- a/Doc/using/cmdline.rst
+++ b/Doc/using/cmdline.rst
@@ -145,6 +145,14 @@
Miscellaneous options
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+.. cmdoption:: -B
+
+ If given, Python won't try to write ``.pyc`` or ``.pyo`` files on the
+ import of source modules. See also :envvar:`PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE`.
+
+ .. versionadded:: 2.6
+
+
.. cmdoption:: -d
Turn on parser debugging output (for wizards only, depending on compilation
@@ -411,3 +419,10 @@
If this is set, Python ignores case in :keyword:`import` statements. This
only works on Windows.
+
+.. envvar:: PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE
+
+ If given, Python won't try to write ``.pyc`` or ``.pyo`` files on the
+ import of source modules.
+
+ .. versionadded:: 2.6