[Python-Dev] Iterating over marshal/pickle (original) (raw)

Barry Warsaw barry at python.org
Mon Oct 9 18:01:40 CEST 2006

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On Oct 9, 2006, at 11:28 AM, Fredrik Lundh wrote:

1. Does this seem like a reasonable addition to the standard library? I cannot remember ever doing this, or seeing anyone except Perforce doing this, and it'll only save you a few lines of code every other year or so, so my answer is definitely no.

FWIW, Mailman uses pickle files with multiple pickled objects in
them, to implement its queue files. We first dump the Message
object, followed by a dictionary of metadata. OTOH, I know there's
only two objects in the pickle, so I don't have to iterate over it; I
just load the message and then load the dictionary.

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