Detecting corrupted .pyc files

[Michael Hudson]

Michael Teo <michaelteo at bigfoot.com> writes:

> Does the python interpreter has some mechanism for checking whether the .pyc 
> files are corrupt before running it ?

No.  Corrupt marshal data *usually* won't unmarshal, but there are no
real checks.

Cheers,
M.

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