On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 11:09 AM, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote: > 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. To the contrary, it was invented by Barry and ought to be added to the English language as a neologism. -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
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