[issue13645] import machinery vulnerable to timestamp collisions

Antoine Pitrou report at bugs.python.org
Tue Jan 10 00:05:07 CET 2012


Antoine Pitrou <pitrou at free.fr> added the comment:

> I'm not suggesting two stat calls (in the general case); you would
> call one or the other depending on the magic number of the pyc file.

The proposal is to store both mtime and size, actually, to make false
positives less likely.

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