Re: [Jython-users] "Bad magic number" error

[Andrew K. <aku...@me...>]

On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 01:36:21PM +0000, Finn Bock wrote:
>Are you completely sure. If I create a file called "strop.class" in my
>cwd, I get the very same error:

Pretty sure:

ute awt>jar -t <microscope.jar |grep str
string.class
string$_PyInner.class
org/python/core/PyReflectedConstructor.class
ute awt>

Hmm... the problem might be due to the bug described at
http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/bugParade/bugs/4196224.html;
the JDK doesn't find a .class file in the JAR, tries to download it
using HTTP, doesn't find it, and reports the 'bad magic number' error.
That explains why it only shows up when running as an applet.
(However, it also shows up with IBM's 1.3 JDK; oh dear...)

A workaround is to edit string.py to not try importing strop.  Maybe
string.py should only try to import strop in CPython.

--amk