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Re: To pickle or not to pickle

From Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de>
Subject Re: To pickle or not to pickle
Date 2015-05-08 12:32 +0200
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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?

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To pickle or not to pickle Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2015-05-08 11:58 +0200
  Re: To pickle or not to pickle Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2015-05-08 12:32 +0200
    Re: To pickle or not to pickle Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2015-05-08 13:51 +0200
    Re: To pickle or not to pickle Irmen de Jong <irmen.NOSPAM@xs4all.nl> - 2015-05-08 19:11 +0200
  Re: To pickle or not to pickle Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2015-05-08 20:54 +1000
    Re: To pickle or not to pickle Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2015-05-08 13:55 +0200
      Re: To pickle or not to pickle Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-05-08 22:53 +1000
        Re: To pickle or not to pickle Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2015-05-08 16:34 +0200
          Re: To pickle or not to pickle Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-05-09 01:11 +1000
            Re: To pickle or not to pickle Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2015-05-08 18:43 +0200
  Re: To pickle or not to pickle Cem Karan <cfkaran2@gmail.com> - 2015-05-08 06:27 -0400

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