[Python-Dev] Mysterious Python pyc file corruption problems

[Barry Warsaw]

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On May 16, 2013, at 06:22 PM, Christian Heimes wrote:

>Are you able to reproduce the issue? Perhaps you could use inotify to
>track down file activity. It shouldn't affect timing much and you can
>track if more than one process it writing to the same file.

Sadly, no.  I've never seen it on any of my own desktops or servers, and none
of the bug reporters have been able to provide a reproducible test case.  I
tried some smaller test cases to see if I could trigger pyc writing race
conditions, but failed to reproduce it there either.

- -Barry
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