> > This brings up another interesting point: are the .pyc files guarded agains
> t
> > concurrent generation?
>
> Yes. The timestamp and magic number are written last, in one write
> operation.
As stated, this is not enough. It can happen that two processes start
writing the same .pyc file at the same time. I suppose that usually
the two processes will write identical copies, but when there are
different versions of python around, that may not be the case.
A better approach would be to write to a temporary file first and
linking the temporary file to the .pyc file at the end. When linking
fails, someone else was there before you, so you can ignore the error.
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