[Python-Dev] .pyc magic (Python 2.1 release schedule)

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Tim Peters wrote:
> 
> [Guido]
> > - New schema for .pyc magic number?  (Eric, Tim)
> 
> [Eric]
> > It looked to me like Tim had a good scheme, but he never specified
> > the latter (integrity-check) part of the header).
> 
> Heh -- I stopped after the first 4 bytes!  Didn't intend to do more (the
> first 4 are the hardest <0.25 wink>).  Was hoping Ping would rework his
> ideas into the framework /F suggested (next 4 bytes is a timestamp, then a
> new marshal type containing "everything else").
> 
> I doubt that can make it in for 2.1, though, unless someone works intensely
> on it this week.

Just a side-note: the flags for e.g. -U ought to also provide
a way to store the encoding used by the compiler and perhaps
even the compiler version/name.

Don't think it's a good idea to put this into 2.1, though, since
it needs a PEP :-)

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Marc-Andre Lemburg
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