Quickie to compile Python modules

compile a directory

import compileall
sys.exit(not compileall.compile_dir('modules_dir', quiet=1))

compile a single module

import py_compile
import sys

try:
    py_compile.compile('file.py', doraise=True)
    sys.exit(0)
except py_compile.PyCompileError, pe:
    print pe
    sys.exit(1)