Python Byte-compilation During Build, master branch (2017.11.03.)

This is to address ATLINFR-1910.

The idea is to make the build byte-compile all python code during the build to:

• Ensure that there are no syntax errors in any of our installed python files;
• Make sure that the byte-compiled code ends up in the RPMs that we build, so that job configuration may become a bit faster from installed releases.

Will have to run some additional checks on the code before merging it though.

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There's one thing that I only realised now: The python configurables generated by genconf are not put through this byte-compilation at the moment.

I had a quick look at the atlas_add_component function to see how easy it would be to start using atlas_install_python_modules in it to actually install the generated python module, but it would require a bit more of a change than I'd like to do to it right now.

So for now I'd only add the .pyc files for the user-written python code. The auto-generated code will only get such files at some later date...

Since a full build of Athena is going along quite happily with this setup on my desktop at the moment, let's just push it in, and let the CI system try it out for the build of Athena in the master branch.

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