[Python-Dev] Identifying magic prefix on Python files?

Tim Peters tim.one@home.com
Mon, 5 Feb 2001 00:12:44 -0500


[Ping]
>     - If the purpose of the code-size field is to protect against
>       incomplete file transfers, would a hash be worth
>       considering here?

I think it's more to make it easy to suck the code into a string in one
gulp.  Else the code-size field would have come after the code <0.9 wink>.