What is "marshal data"?

[Cliff Wells]

On Thursday 15 November 2001 10:33, Cliff Wells wrote:
> On Thursday 15 November 2001 10:28, Soren Ragsdale wrote:
> > Possible sources of the problem: "uh.py" is imported from MANY
> > programs on our network.  It's being imported by Linux and Irix
> > machines running 1.5.2 and 2.1.1 versions of Python.  Could this be
>
> As mentioned in another thread, the bytecode between python versions is not
> backward compatible, so you may be trying to execute 2.1.1 bytecode on a
> 1.5.2 interpreter and that may be causing the problem.

One way to get around this would be to keep your application modules in a 
directory named "modules", and then create two additional directories named 
"modules-1.5.2" and "modules-2.1.1" that contain links to uh.py and gh.py in 
the "modules" directory.  Then in your application code, set your import path 
conditionally based upon the value of sys.version_info.  This way they all 
import the same code, but write the .pyc files to separate directories.

Regards,

-- 
Cliff Wells
Software Engineer
Logiplex Corporation (www.logiplex.net)
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