>>>>> Terry Hancock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (TH) wrote:
>TH> It looks to me like Python just deleted a read-only file owned by >TH> root in order to replace it with a new pyc file. Can somebody >TH> explain that to me?! Isn't that supposed to be impossible? If the directory is writable, you can delete a file and write a new one with the same name. The permissions of the file itself are of no importance in this case. -- Piet van Oostrum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> URL: http://www.cs.uu.nl/~piet [PGP] Private email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list