On Sunday 03 March 2002 09:46 pm, you wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 09:52:31PM -0500, Bob Stia wrote:
> > On Thursday 28 February 2002 05:48 pm, you wrote:
> > > On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Bob Stia wrote:
..............<snip of other crying and consoling>............
>
> Python compiles its source files into bytecode (sort of a python
> machine language). The original file will be <something>.py and the
> bytecode version will be <something>.pyc. Python will run the
> bytecode version automatically, if it's available. OTOH, if you
> delete the
> bytecode/compiled version, it will run the source version. Normally
> a "magic number" is something in a file that allows Linux to
> determine what type of file it is. Most types of file have some
> sort of indicator in them that marks them as distinct from other
> types of files.
>
> In any case, you should be able to delete the .pyc file and run the
> source file as you did above. Hopefully, it should work. Of course,
> at this point, who knows? ;-}
>
> Paul (the other one)
Wellll Paul (the other one) Thanks for jumping in and trying to help.
Deleted the pysol.pyc file and here is what happened:
bob@linux:~ > sh /usr/local/pysol-4.60/pysol
python: can't open file './data/pysol.pyc'
bob@linux:~ > /usr/local/pysol-4.60/pysol
python: can't open file './data/pysol.pyc'
bob@linux:~ >
I guess I have to give up and keep the dual boot so my wife can play
card games that she wants.
Bob S.
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