"Fred L. Drake, Jr." <fdrake@acm.org> writes: > Guido can rule as he sees fit, but I don't see any reason *not* to > change the magic number. This seems like a pretty important fix to > me. The memory-overwriting problem can be fixed without bumping the pyc magic. The rationale for bumping the pyc magic is pretty weak, IMO, so that aspect should not be propagated to 2.2.1. Regards, Martin