Python "byte code" description

Courageous jkraska at san.rr.com
Sat Dec 7 04:18:59 EST 2002


>> Is there anything more comprehensive, apart from the Python
>> implementation itself? Not only do I need the actual file format,
>
>Why?  The internal .pyc format is an internal implementation detail
>subject to change with each version.  The doc for this is the c code
>which write and reads it.   It consists of a magic number, PyCode, and
>marshaled versions of literals.

Probably in the past I would have found developer documentation on the
lastest _implementation detail_ of Python's bytecode to be interesting.

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