[Python-Dev] Failing tests (on a Linux distro)

[Nick Coghlan]

On 2 July 2018 at 17:38, Petr Viktorin <encukou at gmail.com> wrote:
> Anyway, the SUSE tests seem  to fail on .pyc files. The main change in that
> area was [PEP 552], try starting there. AFAIK, SUSE is ahead of Fedora in
> the reproducible builds area; perhaps that's where the difference is.

In particular, if a build system sets SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH without
specifying a pyc format for py_compile or compileall, Python 3.7 will
give you checked hashes by default:
https://docs.python.org/3/library/py_compile.html?highlight=source_date_epoch#py_compile.compile

Cheers,
Nick.

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