[Python-Dev] Pickle alternative in stdlib (Was: On breaking modules into packages) (original) (raw)

Steven D'Aprano steve at pearwood.info
Fri Nov 5 01:56:05 CET 2010


Nick Coghlan wrote:

As a tool for communicating between different instances of the same version of Python though, pickle is fine.

I'm using pickle to pass a list and dict of floats and strings from Python 2.6 to 3.1. I've never had any problems with it. Am I living in a state of sin or is that okay?

-- Steven



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