> True. You might also want to note that "Python 2.6 -U" appears to have a > different magic number from "Python 2.6" and "Python 2.6 -O". > > I don't know whether they always change for each new version.
Here is a recent list of magic numbers: Python 2.6a0: 62151 (peephole optimizations and STORE_MAP opcode) Python 2.6a1: 62161 (WITH_CLEANUP optimization) Python 2.7a0: 62171 (optimize list comprehensions/change LIST_APPEND) Python 2.7a0: 62181 (optimize conditional branches: introduce POP_JUMP_IF_FALSE and POP_JUMP_IF_TRUE) Python 2.7a0 62191 (introduce SETUP_WITH) Python 2.7a0 62201 (introduce BUILD_SET) Python 2.7a0 62211 (introduce MAP_ADD and SET_ADD) #define MAGIC (62211 | ((long)'\r'<<16) | ((long)'\n'<<24)) Regards, Martin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list