[Python-Dev] Python interpreter crash. (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Wed, 13 Mar 2002 16:31:48 +1300 (NZDT)

Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>:

f = open("foo.pyc") f.seek(8) code = marshal.load(f)

Ah! I was trying to do something like that a minute ago before answering the original query, but the magic number 8 eluded me. Is it documented anywhere, or is mystic knowledge required?

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