Generating .pyc/.pyo from a make file

[Steve Holden]

Roland Heiber wrote:

> Tim Daneliuk wrote:
> 
>> It does - thanks.  One more question:  Are pyc and pyo file portable
>> across operating systems?  I suspect not since I generated a pyo
>> on a FreeBSD machine that will not run on a Win32 machine.  I was
>> under the impression that "compiled" meant optimized byte code that
>> was portable across implementations, but it looks to not be the case...
>>
> 
> Hi,
> 
> ..pyc's should be, cause it's standard python-bytecode, if you use 
> massive optimizations it depends not on the os but on the underlying 
> cpu/architecture ...
> 
> So long, Roland

You probably tried to use a bytecode file from *one* version of Python 
with an interpreter of another version. Python actually checks the first 
four bytes of the .pyc file for a compatible "magic number" before 
accepting the file for execution.

regards
  Steve
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