Re: enhancement request: make py3 read/write py2 pickle format

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From	Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz>
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Subject	Re: enhancement request: make py3 read/write py2 pickle format
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Robert Kern wrote:
> To allow people to write their own types that can be serialized, 
> you have to let them specify arbitrary callables that will do the 
> reconstruction. If you whitelist the possible reconstruction callables, 
> you have greatly restricted the types that can participate in the 
> serialization system.

If whitelisting a type is the *only* thing you need to
do to make it serialisable, I think that comes close
enough to the stated goal of being able to "serialise
all [potentially serialisable] language objects".

Having to be explicit about which types are deserialisable
is probably a good thing anyway. It gives you an opportunity
to specify the mapping between the external format and
class names, so that your serialised data doesn't contain
assumptions about implementation details of your program.

-- 
Greg

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Re: enhancement request: make py3 read/write py2 pickle format Robert Kern <robert.kern@gmail.com> - 2015-06-10 12:22 +0100
  Re: enhancement request: make py3 read/write py2 pickle format Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2015-06-10 15:08 +0300
    Re: enhancement request: make py3 read/write py2 pickle format random832@fastmail.us - 2015-06-10 09:38 -0400
    Re: enhancement request: make py3 read/write py2 pickle format Robert Kern <robert.kern@gmail.com> - 2015-06-10 14:52 +0100
      Re: enhancement request: make py3 read/write py2 pickle format Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2015-06-11 11:30 +1200
        Re: enhancement request: make py3 read/write py2 pickle format random832@fastmail.us - 2015-06-10 20:47 -0400

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