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Re: To pickle or not to pickle

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What are you using pickle for?  If this is just for yourself, go for it.  If you're planning on interchanging with different languages/platforms/etc., JSON or XML might be better.  If you're after something that is smaller and faster, maybe MessagePack or Google Protocol Buffers.  If you're after something that can hold a planet's worth of data, maybe HDF5.  It really depends on your use-case.

MessagePack - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MessagePack
Google Protocol Buffers - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protocol_Buffers
HDF5 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hierarchical_Data_Format

Thanks,
Cem Karan

On May 8, 2015, at 5:58 AM, Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> 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?
> 
> -- 
> Cecil Westerhof
> Senior Software Engineer
> LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cecilwesterhof
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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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