Am 31.01.2010 07:29, schrieb Nick Coghlan:
> Vitor Bosshard wrote:
>>> There is no one-to-one correspondence between Python version and pyc
>>> magic numbers. Different runtime options may change the magic number and
>>> different versions may reuse a magic number
>>
>> Good point. Runtime options would need to change the version (e.g.
>> foo.25U.py), and versions that reuse magic numbers would be
>> redundantly written to disk. However, the underlying issue as I see it
>> is that the magic value is an implementation detail that should not be
>> exposed.
>
> I think this is actually be a good point - while there needs to be a
> shared namespace to allow different Python implementations to avoid
> stepping on each others toes, CPython's bytecode compatibility magic
> number may not be the best choice as the distinguishing identifier.
>
> It may be better to give the magic numbers a meaningful corresponding
> string, such that the filenames would be more like:
>
> foo.py
> foo.pyr/
> cpython-25.pyc
> cpython-25U.pyc
> cpython-27.pyc
> cpython-27U.pyc
> cpython-32.pyc
> unladen-011.pyc
> wpython-11.pyc
+1. It should be quite easy to assign a new name every time the magic
number is updated.
> If we don't change the bytecode for a given Python version, then the
> name of the bytecode format used wouldn't change either.
That would be the only remaining complaint for casual users. ("Why doesn't
Python compile my file for 2.8?")
Georg
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