Re:Finding secrets by decompiling Python bytecode in public ...
by pdonis on Saturday May 30, 2020 @11:56PM
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> what does python do if it doesn't have write permission in the current working directory? Not write the cache?
In the case where the interpreter can't find any place it has write access to to write the cache, it will not write it, yes. That means it will have to re-parse the source file into bytecode (and fail to write the bytecode to cache) every time it is loaded.
In the case where the interpreter can't find any place it has write access to to write the cache, it will not write it, yes. That means it will have to re-parse the source file into bytecode (and fail to write the bytecode to cache) every time it is loaded.