On 4/15/2010 11:01 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
pyc files inside of the `__pycache__` directories contain a magic
identifier in their file names. These are mnemonic tags for the
actual magic numbers used by the importer. For example, in Python
3.2, we could use the hexlified [10]_ magic number as a unique
(Aside: when you search Wikipedia for "hexlify" it says "did you mean:
heavily?" :-)
I regard 'hexlify', as used in binascii, to be a misspelling of
'hexify', whether it originated with Python or elsewhere. 'Hexify'
itself may not be an official dictionary word but it at least follows a
normal pattern of derivation. I have not bothered to say anything before
because correcting the misspelling of the module function would break
back compatibility. But I think its usage should stop there.
Terry Jan Reedy
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