From 35f64c12d3d43c1d0022cab1fb9b9464edf1a13e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Andrew M. Kuchling" <amk@amk.ca>
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 13:56:48 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Add example

---
 Doc/lib/libcompileall.tex | 13 +++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Doc/lib/libcompileall.tex b/Doc/lib/libcompileall.tex
index d39a5481f14..3e9667d9e55 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libcompileall.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libcompileall.tex
@@ -44,6 +44,19 @@ compile Python sources in directories named on the command line or in
   \function{compile_dir()} function.
 \end{funcdesc}
 
+To force a recompile of all the \file{.py} files in the \file{Lib/}
+subdirectory and all its subdirectories:
+
+\begin{verbatim}
+import compileall
+
+compileall.compile_dir('Lib/', force=True)
+
+# Perform same compilation, excluding files in .svn directories.
+import re
+compileall.compile_dir('Lib/', rx=re.compile('/[.]svn'), force=True)
+\end{verbatim}
+
 
 \begin{seealso}
   \seemodule[pycompile]{py_compile}{Byte-compile a single source file.}