On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 3:27 PM, Greg Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote: > Guido van Rossum wrote: >> >> This reminds me of the following bug, which can happen when two >> processes are both writing the .pyc file and a third is reading it. >> ... I think all the errors are >> >> actually explainable from this scenario. > > > The second writer will still carry on to write a valid > .pyc file, though, won't it? So this wouldn't result in > a permanently broken .pyc file being left behind, which > is what the original problem description seemed say > was happening.
>From the evidence that is not completely clear to me. Thomas Wouters' scenario with two different Python versions writing the same .pyc file could cause that; I don't know if Barry has ruled that possibility out yet. -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com