Peter Funk <pf@artcom-gmbh.de>: > BTW: import.c contains the following comment: > /* XXX Perhaps the magic number should be frozen and a version field > added to the .pyc file header? */ > > Judging from my decade long experience with exotic image and CAD data > formats I think this is always the way to go for binary data files. > Using this method newer versions of a program can always recognize > the file format version and convert files generated by older versions > in an appropriate way. I have similar experience, notably with hacking graphics file formats. I concur with this recommendation. -- <a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr">Eric S. Raymond</a> The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
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