Python .elc and /etc/magic

[François Pinard]

Hi, friends.  I notice that the standard `file' program fails to recognise
that `.pyc' files are compiled Python codes, and is not always clever even
for `.py' files, witness the third line below:

   /usr/local/lib/python/Local/commun.py:    a python script text
   /usr/local/lib/python/Local/commun.pyc:   data
   /usr/local/lib/python/Local/defs.py:      ISO-8859 Java program text
   /usr/local/lib/python/Local/defs.pyc:     data
   /usr/local/lib/python/Local/machines.py:  a python script text
   /usr/local/lib/python/Local/machines.pyc: data
   /usr/local/lib/python/Local/make.py:      a python script text
   /usr/local/lib/python/Local/make.pyc:     data

Is there any standard `/etc/magic' entries that would work better for Python?
Here is the Python relevant code in the copy from Linux SuSE 7.2.

   # often the module starts with a multiline string
   0	string		"""	a python script text
   # MAGIC as specified in Python/import.c (1.5.2/1.6)
   # 20121  ( YEAR - 1995 ) + MONTH  + DAY (little endian followed by "\r\n"
   0	belong		0x994e0d0a	python compiled

It probably matters to know that Python 2.0 is the default on this system.

And even, if one knows the proper incantations, how do we proceed then
for having that `/etc/magic' file more universally modified?

-- 
François Pinard   http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard