On 03/11/2012 08:06 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> What if one merely changed the order of definition? Instead of:
>
> def foo(): pass
> def bar(): pass
>
> one had this?
>
> def bar(): pass
> def foo(): pass
>
> It depends on why the OP cares if they are "identical". I can imagine use-
> cases where the right solution is to forget ideas about identical code,
> and just checksum the files (ignoring any timestamps).
I guess this is what I will do for my use case
Perform a checksum ignoring the time stamp.
What I did not know though is where the time stamp was located.
it seems it's in bytes 4-7 for all C-python versions so far.
What is regrettable though is, that the absolute path name is part of
the .pyc file, as I do not care
Following snippet calculates the hash of a .pyc file by just ignoring
the time stamp:
import hashlib
def md5_for_pyc(fname):
hasher = hashlib.md5()
with open(fname, 'rb') as fin:
version = fin.read(4)
hasher.update(version)
_tstamp = fin.read(4)
bytecode = fin.read()
hasher.update(bytecode)
return hasher.hexdigest()
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