[Python-Dev] Mysterious Python pyc file corruption problems

[Nick Coghlan]

On 16 May 2013 08:11, "Tres Seaver" <tseaver at palladion.com> wrote:
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> On 05/15/2013 04:58 PM, Barry Warsaw wrote:
> > This leads me to hypothesize that the bug is due to an as yet
> > unidentified race condition during installation of Python source code
> > on Ubuntu, which is normally when we automatically byte compile the
> > source to .pyc files.
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> Any chance you are using 'detox' or the equivalent to run tests on
> mutliple interpreters in parallel?  The only "bad marshall data" errors I
> have seen lately seemed to be provoked by that kind of practice.

3.2 shouldn't have a problem with that if the interpreters are different
versions.

Personally, I would be suspicious of developmental web services doing
auto-reloading while an installer is recompiling the world. I don't have
enough context to be sure how plausible that is as a possible explanation,
though.

Cheers,
Nick.

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