From 19b23e538e8689950cfd2bcfbdbc30e9115fd48f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1998 19:45:33 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Use the imp module to get the magic word.

---
 Tools/scripts/checkpyc.py | 8 ++------
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Tools/scripts/checkpyc.py b/Tools/scripts/checkpyc.py
index 6df0472b283..7be625c3c48 100755
--- a/Tools/scripts/checkpyc.py
+++ b/Tools/scripts/checkpyc.py
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 import sys
 import os
 from stat import ST_MTIME
+import imp
 
 def main():
 	silent = 0
@@ -14,12 +15,7 @@ def main():
 			verbose = 1
 		elif sys.argv[1] == '-s':
 			silent = 1
-	MAGIC = '\0\0\0\0'
-	try:
-		if sys.version[:5] >= '0.9.4':
-			MAGIC = '\224\224\224\0'
-	except:
-		pass
+	MAGIC = imp.get_magic()
 	if not silent:
 		print 'Using MAGIC word', `MAGIC`
 	for dirname in sys.path: