Tim Peters wrote:
[M.-A. Lemburg]
FYI, I've bumped the PYC magic in a non-standard way (the old standard broke on 2002-01-01); please review:
Fine by me, except you should also check in a NEWS blurb about it. The current NEWS file says:
""" - Because Python's magic number scheme broke on January 1st, we decided to stop Python development. Thanks for all the fish! """
That's why PythonLabs hasn't done much of anything on Python since 2.2 was released <wink>.
Done.
algorithm relying on the above scheme. Perhaps we should simply start counting in increments of 10 from now on ?!
Why 10? I'd rather see it incremented by 1. If you respond that you want to make room for more hacks akin to -U, my response would be that's exactly what I want to prevent by blessing 1 <0.4 wink>.
The reason is that I don't want to break the -U scheme. I know it's a hack, but until someone comes up with a better way to add flags to store PYC compile options, we'll have to stick with it (-U changes the semantics of the language in a pretty nasty way ... nothing works anymore ;-). -- Marc-Andre Lemburg CEO eGenix.com Software GmbH ______________________________________________________________________ Company & Consulting: http://www.egenix.com/ Python Software: http://www.egenix.com/files/python/