Re: [pysnmp-dev] [PATCH] fix for loading compiled (*.{pyc, pyo}) mib files

[Ilya E. <il...@gl...>]

Hi Jacek,

That piece of code has been radically reworked in 4.2.4 branch. Could 
you please try out this tarball:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/pysnmp/files/pysnmp/4.2.4/pysnmp-4.2.4rc5.tar.gz/download

and alert me in case of any issues.

thanks,
Ilya

> In the PLD Linux distribution Python 2.x modules are distributed in
> compiled form only (*.{pyc,pyo}, no *.py), this is also done for the MIB
> modules included in pysnmp. PySNMP does include code to handle that,
> but it is broken in the 4.2.3 release:
>
> DBG: loadModules: trying SNMPv2-MIB at DirMibSource('/usr/share/python2.7/site-packages/pysnmp/smi/mibs')
> DBG: bad magic in SNMPv2-MIB.pyc
> DBG: file SNMPv2-MIB.pyc mtime -1
> DBG: file SNMPv2-MIB.py mtime -1
>
> The magic bytes are valid in the file, but they get destroyed by the _getData()
> method before the test in read() method.
>
> The patch below fixes the problem.