[Python-Dev] .pyc magic time bomb? (original) (raw)

Tim Peters tim@zope.com
Thu, 15 Nov 2001 16:50:53 -0500

[Neil Schemenauer]

Has the magic for .pyc files been fixed?

No.

If not, shouldn't this be done before the 2.2 release.

That's why 2.2 has to ship before January .

The last time this came up, people tried to turn "the magic number" into a database. Since Guido won't go for that, chances seem good that, in the absence of a reasonably modest alternative scheme, we'll just pick new numbers out of a hat.