Compiled Byte code

[Michael Hudson]

Cliff Wells <clifford.wells at comcast.net> writes:

> On Wed, 2004-10-13 at 19:19 +0530, Soumitri wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Is there a dependency of version or platform for running a snippet of
> > python compiled code? I have a .pyc (possibly created on a *nix box)
> > that was created off ver 1.5.2 and returns a "Bad Magic Number in .pyc
> > file" error when i run a box with XP and Python 2.3.
> 
> IIRC, I believe bytecode (pyc files), while mostly portable across
> platforms (I've used the same pyc files on Linux and Windows)

Uh, *entirely* portable, I hope, or you've found a bug :-).

Oh, well, you might get into trouble with things like floating point
constants that turn out to be NaNs (e.g. 1e3000).  But you'll have
trouble with those even without moving .pycs between platforms.  And
floating point numbers in general might be problematical if the libc
on the generating platform really sucks.  Err, yeah, mostly portable
:-)

> aren't portable across major versions of Python.

To be clearer, major version in this sense means that bytecode for 2.X
is not guaranteed to (and in practice, won't) run on 2.Y, but bytecode
for 2.X.Y *will* run on 2.X.Z.

Cheers,
mwh

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