[Python-Dev] Mysterious Python pyc file corruption problems (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Fri May 17 00:27:01 CEST 2013

Guido van Rossum wrote:

This reminds me of the following bug, which can happen when two processes are both writing the .pyc file and a third is reading it. ... I think all the errors are actually explainable from this scenario.

The second writer will still carry on to write a valid .pyc file, though, won't it? So this wouldn't result in a permanently broken .pyc file being left behind, which is what the original problem description seemed say was happening.

-- Greg

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