[Python-Dev] Cloning threading.py using proccesses (original) (raw)

Fredrik Lundh fredrik at pythonware.com
Fri Oct 13 07:35:23 CEST 2006

Greg Ewing wrote:

Fredrik Lundh wrote:

marshal hasn't changed in many years: Maybe not, but I was given to understand that it's regarded as a private format that's not guaranteed to remain constant across versions. So even if it happens not to change, it wouldn't be wise to rely on that.

but given that the format has been stable for many years, surely it would make more sense to just codify that fact, rather than developing Yet Another Serialization Format instead?

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