June 3, 2000
11:14 p.m.
On Sat, 3 Jun 2000, Moshe Zadka wrote:
... In any case, is there any objection to storing the size of the .py alongside it's mtime in the .pyc, and regenerating if either is changed? This is just as efficient, and much more reliable.
If we change the header size, then this would be fine. At the moment, I don't think that anybody is suggesting a change to the .pyc header format because of the number of tool breakages that would ensue. People have seemed interested in my idea to update the marshal format to record a version number -- it doesn't require a change to the .pyc header. Cheers, -g -- Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/