On Sun, 4 Jan 2004, Ronald KA4INM Youvan wrote:
> > Anyway, downloaded pysol as an rpm and installed on my SuSE8.2. (Wife
> > like to play card games) When I run the command to open pysol I get a
> > "RuntimeError - Bad Magic number in .pyc"
>
> > ????? How do I find the magic "good magic numer" ??
>
> I searched for years, I found: The file's "magic number" is the first
> four bytes of the file, typically: "%!PS" ps, "ÿWPC."wp, "<HTML" html,
^^^^^
That's five bytes, and
> "ÐÏ.à", "ÿØÿà." jpg, "xRIFF„" wav, "0PNG"png, "P4 " pbm etc.
^^^^^^
that's six. Maybe "the first few bytes"? Or only four bytes ("<HTM",
"xRIF") are necessary for identification? Or not necessarily the _first_
four bytes? That HTML one could be in either case, too.
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