Using bytecode, not code objects

[Michael Spencer]

Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> Fabiano Sidler wrote:
> 
>> I'm looking for a way to compile python source to bytecode instead of
>> code-objects. Is there a possibility to do that? The reason is: I want
>> to store pure bytecode with no additional data.
> 
> use marshal.
> 
>> The second question is, therefore: How can I get the correct values
>> for a given bytecode, such as the stacksize and flags attributes of
>> the correspondent code object?
>>
>> No, I don't want to extract all of these things out of a code object.
> 
> you don't have to.  marshal can convert a code object to a single byte
> string, which contains everything you need.  see the second example on
> this page for sample code:
> 
>     http://www.effbot.org/librarybook/marshal.htm
> 
> </F>
> 
> 
> 
There's a typo in the text accompanying that example: img.get_magic() should be 
imp.get_magic().

Michael