FS#2200 - libxml.pyc broken?

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Eugenia Loli-Queru (Eugenia) - Sunday, 13 February 2005, 09:18 GMT
Last edited by Dale Blount (dale) - Sunday, 13 February 2005, 14:56 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To dorphell (dorphell)
Architecture not specified
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.7 Wombat
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 0%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Since the updates the 1-2 days something changed and now my Revelation application does not load. It's a pygtk application and it was working just fine a few days ago. Now, it says this:

eugenia@lc2430:~/Desktop/Downloads/revelation-0.4.0> revelation
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/revelation", line 30, in ?
from revelation import authmanager, config, data, datahandler, dialog, entry, io, ui, util
File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/revelation/__init__.py", line 27, in ?
import datahandler, misc, stock, entry, widget, data, io, dialog, sys
File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/revelation/datahandler/__init__.py", line 26, in ?
from base import *
File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/revelation/datahandler/base.py", line 26, in ?
import gobject, gtk, libxml2, random, zlib
ImportError: Bad magic number in /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/libxml2.pyc

I tried recompiling/reinstalling with no luck. You changed something the last few days that buggered support for libxml2.pyc completely, it seems.
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Closed by  Jan de Groot (JGC)
Monday, 14 February 2005, 11:42 GMT
Reason for closing:  Works for me
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Sunday, 13 February 2005, 10:01 GMT
Remove the .pyc files from /usr/lib/python2.3, those files are outdated. .pyc files are precompiled python files which don't work when precompiled with a different (older) version of python.
Comment by Eugenia Loli-Queru (Eugenia) - Sunday, 13 February 2005, 21:39 GMT
to get revelation running I had to completely delete its python2.3/site-packages/revelation folder. Apparently the new version was installed under python2.4 and it was working fine after installation, but after a reboot it was trying to load stuff from its python2.3 folder instead of the 2.4 one. That was the problem.

I really don't like the way python is doing business breaking their compatibility and creating duplications in that way. They really suck in user experience. :(

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