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From: Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl>
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Subject: Re: To pickle or not to pickle
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Op Friday 8 May 2015 12:32 CEST schreef Peter Otten:

> Cecil Westerhof wrote:
>
>> I first used marshal in my filebasedMessages module. Then I read
>> that you should not use it, because it changes per Python version
>> and it was better to use pickle. So I did that and now I find:
>> https://wiki.python.org/moin/Pickle
>>
>> Is it really that bad and should I change again?
>
> Let's say it the other way around: pickle is fine for short term
> storage when the generation of the file is under your control and
> you only need to access it from Python.
>
> Does that description fit your requirements?

Certainly. I use it to store which messages are ‘recently’ used, so I
will not use them for the next. I will keep it like this for the
moment being then.

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Cecil Westerhof
Senior Software Engineer
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cecilwesterhof