Martin v. Löwis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: I like to challenge the view what "correct" behavior is here. If I pickle an array of 32-bit integer values on one system, and unpickle it as an array of 64-bit integer values on a different system, is that correct, or incorrect?
IMO, correct behavior would preserve the width as much as possible. For integers, this should be straight-forward, as it should be for floats and doubles (failing to unpickle them if the target system doesn't support a certain format). For Unicode, I think the array module should grow platform-independent width, for both 2-byte and 4-byte Unicode. When pickling, the pickle should always use network byte order; alternatively, the pickle should contain a byte order marker (presence of which could also be used as an indication that the new array pickle format is used). IOW, <i would indicate little-endian four byte integers, and so on. ---------- nosy: +loewis _______________________________________ Python tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue2389> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
