[Python-Dev] Marshal bug in 2.1?

[Christian Tismer]

Thomas Wouters wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 09:01:38PM +0200, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> 
> > Yes, not suprisingly though... AFAIK the pyc format changed
> > in every single version between 1.5.2 and 2.1.
> 
> Worse, it's changed several times between each release :)

But I didn't use .pyc at all, just a marshalled code object.
There are no version headers or such.
The same object worked in fact for Py 1.5.2 and 2.0, but no
longer with 2.1 .
I debugged the unmarshalling and saw what happened:
The new code objects with their new scoping features were
the problem. The new structures were simply added, and there
is no way to skip these for older code objects, since there
isn't any info.
Some option for marshal to umarshal old-style code objects
would ave helped.
But then, I'm not sure if the opcodes are still assigned
the same way in 2.1, or if there was some movement? This would
kill it anyway.

ciao - chris

(now looking for another cheap way to do something invisible in
 Python without installing *anything* )

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