byte code generated under linux == bad magic number under windows

2004-12-06 Thread Philippe C. Martin
Hi, I understand from my reading that a .pyc generated by python anywhere should run anywhere else - is that true ? If I generate 'compile.all' a pyc with python 2.3.3 under Linux, I get a 'bad magic number' trying to execute it under windows (2.4). What am I doing wrong ? are the pyc

Re: byte code generated under linux == bad magic number under windows

2004-12-06 Thread Laszlo Zsolt Nagy
I understand from my reading that a .pyc generated by python anywhere should run anywhere else - is that true ? If I generate 'compile.all' a pyc with python 2.3.3 under Linux, I get a 'bad magic number' trying to execute it under windows (2.4). What am I doing wrong ? You should use the

Re: byte code generated under linux == bad magic number under windows

2004-12-06 Thread Jarek Zgoda
Aaron Bingham wrote: .pyc files are platform-independant but are incompatible between major Python versions. You can not use a .pyc file generated with Python 2.3 with Python 2.4 or vice versa. AFAIK, they *are* platform dependent. You can not share pyc files between ASCII and EBCDIC machine.

Re: byte code generated under linux == bad magic number under windows

2004-12-06 Thread Jarek Zgoda
Fredrik Lundh wrote: AFAIK, they *are* platform dependent. You can not share pyc files between ASCII and EBCDIC machine. however, that could be seen as be a flaw in the EBCDIC ports. We'll see if this could be fixed. I try to foster some movement in Python/400 (I love this name, please, dont

RE: byte code generated under linux == bad magic number under windows

2004-12-06 Thread Delaney, Timothy C (Timothy)
Philippe C. Martin wrote: I understand from my reading that a .pyc generated by python anywhere should run anywhere else - is that true ? If I generate 'compile.all' a pyc with python 2.3.3 under Linux, I ^ get a 'bad magic number' trying