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  Re: cafebabe python macosx easter egg? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-02-11 17:30 +1100

#38646 — Re: cafebabe python macosx easter egg?

On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 5:10 PM, Rodrick Brown <rodrick.brown@gmail.com> wrote:
> $ hexdump -n4 -C $(which python) | awk '{print $2 $3 $4 $5 }'

I believe that's used as a file signature. All you're doing is looking
at the first four bytes of the file; 0xCAFEBABE is used as a signature
by Java class files, and some others. You can probably find the same
signature in other programs on your system.

ChrisA

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