.pyc from stdin?

[Shay Telfer]

Hi...

It seems that python will accept a .py file piped from stdin, but not a
..pyc file (and there don't seem to be any flags to allow this). Am I
missing something?

Eg

cat blah.py | python

works, but

cat blah.pyc | python

doesn't. (If you're wondering why anyone would do this it's because I'm
actually intending to use curl rather than cat

Thanks,
Shay

 

[lallous]

Hello Shay,

Hi...

It seems that python will accept a .py file piped from stdin, but not a
.pyc file (and there don't seem to be any flags to allow this). Am I
missing something?

Eg

cat blah.py | python

works, but

cat blah.pyc | python

Try for example: python -c "import blah"

doesn't. (If you're wondering why anyone would do this it's because I'm
actually intending to use curl rather than cat

The former works because the Python interpreter understands python syntax,
and when you (in the latter case) provide the interpreter a pyc file it
surely won't work because it does not understand those compiled bytes just
like that....

 

[lallous]

Hello Shay,

Hi...

It seems that python will accept a .py file piped from stdin, but not a
.pyc file (and there don't seem to be any flags to allow this). Am I
missing something?

Eg

cat blah.py | python

works, but

cat blah.pyc | python

Try for example: python -c "import blah"

doesn't. (If you're wondering why anyone would do this it's because I'm
actually intending to use curl rather than cat

The former works because the Python interpreter understands python syntax,
and when you (in the latter case) provide the interpreter a pyc file it
surely won't work because it does not understand those compiled bytes just
like that....

 

[lallous]

Hello Shay,

Hi...

It seems that python will accept a .py file piped from stdin, but not a
.pyc file (and there don't seem to be any flags to allow this). Am I
missing something?

Eg

cat blah.py | python

works, but

cat blah.pyc | python

Try for example: python -c "import blah"

doesn't. (If you're wondering why anyone would do this it's because I'm
actually intending to use curl rather than cat

The former works because the Python interpreter understands python syntax,
and when you (in the latter case) provide the interpreter a pyc file it
surely won't work because it does not understand those compiled bytes just
like that....