[Python-Dev] Pickle alternative in stdlib (Was: On breaking modules into packages) (original) (raw)
Alexander Belopolsky alexander.belopolsky at gmail.com
Thu Nov 4 15:57:39 CET 2010
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On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 10:51 AM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote: ..
Twisted actually tried to preserve pickle compatibility in the bad old days, but it was impossible. Pickles should never really be saved to disk unless they contain nothing but lists, ints, strings, and dicts. But that set of types can safely be marshalled using the marshal module...
Not if the instances contain reference cycles.
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