Checksyntaxwritefile

index.ts

@@ -286,24 +286,23 @@ export class PythonShell extends EventEmitter {
      * @returns rejects promise w/ string error output if syntax failure
      */
     static async checkSyntax(code: string) {
-        const randomInt = getRandomInt();
-        const filePath = tmpdir() + sep + `pythonShellSyntaxCheck${randomInt}.py`
 
-        const writeFilePromise = promisify(writeFile)
-        return writeFilePromise(filePath, code).then(() => {
-            return this.checkSyntaxFile(filePath)
-        })
+        const pythonPath = this.getPythonPath()
+        let compileCommand = `${pythonPath} -c "compile('${code}', '', 'exec');"`
+        return execPromise(compileCommand)
     }
 
     static getPythonPath() {
         return this.defaultOptions.pythonPath ? this.defaultOptions.pythonPath : this.defaultPythonPath;
     }
 
+
     /**
-     * checks syntax without executing code
+     * checks syntax of a file without executing code
      * @returns {Promise} rejects w/ stderr if syntax failure
      */
     static async checkSyntaxFile(filePath: string) {
+
         const pythonPath = this.getPythonPath()
         let compileCommand = `${pythonPath} -m py_compile ${filePath}`
         return execPromise(compileCommand)