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| author | Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> | 2001-01-04 20:30:56 (GMT) |
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| committer | Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> | 2001-01-04 20:30:56 (GMT) |
| commit | be4c0f56a28831f6121ef545ca8afb44a6723022 (patch) | |
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| parent | b31d36cf014d832d1f4da753e60e9112a350abc4 (diff) | |
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Recognize pyc files even if they don't end in pyc.
Patch #103067 with modifications as discussed in email.
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@@ -3,6 +3,14 @@ What's New in Python 2.1 alpha 1? Core language, builtins, and interpreter +- The interpreter accepts now bytecode files on the command line even + if they do not have a .pyc or .pyo extension. On Linux, after executing + + echo ':pyc:M::\x87\xc6\x0d\x0a::/usr/local/bin/python:' > /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc/register + + any byte code file can be used as an executable (i.e. as an argument + to execve(2)). + - %[xXo] formats of negative Python longs now produce a sign character. In 1.6 and earlier, they never produced a sign, and raised an error if the value of the long was too large |