Re: Packaging decompyle - policy question

2001-11-12 Thread dman
On Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 01:37:15AM +0100, Tom Cato Amundsen wrote: | On Mon, 2001-11-12 at 18:22, Ben Burton wrote: | > | > Hi. So I'm packaging decompyle which decompiles a .pyc bytecode file and | > converts it back to python source. | | No offense, but when would you need such a tool? I'm not

Re: Packaging decompyle - policy question

2001-11-12 Thread Ben Burton
> > Hi. So I'm packaging decompyle which decompiles a .pyc bytecode file and > > converts it back to python source. > > No offense, but when would you need such a tool? I'm not critical to > packaging this for debian, just wondering when I would need it. I've already used it once, when I inadver

Re: Packaging decompyle - policy question

2001-11-12 Thread Tom Cato Amundsen
On Mon, 2001-11-12 at 18:22, Ben Burton wrote: > > Hi. So I'm packaging decompyle which decompiles a .pyc bytecode file and > converts it back to python source. > No offense, but when would you need such a tool? I'm not critical to packaging this for debian, just wondering when I would need it.

Re: Packaging decompyle - policy question

2001-11-12 Thread Gregor Hoffleit
* Ben Burton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [02 19:20]: > > > c) A wrapper that auto-detects the format of the .pyc file and calls the > > according variant (detection of the .pyc format should be pretty easy, > > it's just a magic number, cf. /usr/share/misc/magic). > > Hm, I'll try and find some docum

Re: Packaging decompyle - policy question

2001-11-12 Thread Ben Burton
> c) A wrapper that auto-detects the format of the .pyc file and calls the > according variant (detection of the .pyc format should be pretty easy, > it's just a magic number, cf. /usr/share/misc/magic). Hm, I'll try and find some documentation on how to extract the version information. > > If th

Re: Packaging decompyle - policy question

2001-11-12 Thread Gregor Hoffleit
* Ben Burton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [02 18:22]: > > Hi. So I'm packaging decompyle which decompiles a .pyc bytecode file and > converts it back to python source. > > Thing is, decompyle needs to be run with the same version of python that was > used to create the bytecode. > > So the questio