Question

The short of it is:

from mega.capture_classes.class_wc_daemon import WCDaemon

Gives me:

EOFError: EOF read where not expected

This all happened inside a virtualenv. And, yes, I made sure class_wc_daemon.py looks healthy.

Now I gather that this error is only thrown be Python marshalling, and that the best way to fix the error is re-installing Python (see Python 3.2 won't import cookielib) My PC crashed in an interesting and colorful way so I think something got corrupted so this makes sense…

I’ve been googling around a whole lot and can’t find a straight answer to my question:

What’s the quickest, most hassle free way of fixing a virtualenv with screwy python marshalling?

I can just make a new virtualenv, copy over all my code, re-install all the packages and run with it but I’m sure there’s a better way?

Answer 1

So the problem was a corrupt .pyc file. I deleted all my pycs and got Python to make me some new ones and it all worked out great.

Thanks to Martjin Pieters for the comment – you are a scholar and a gentleman 🙂