Fredrik Lundh wrote: > Tim Lesher wrote: > >> 1. Does this seem like a reasonable addition to the standard library? > > I cannot remember ever doing this, or seeing anyone except Perforce > doing this, and it'll only save you a few lines of code every other year > or so, so my answer is definitely no. > > (if you're serious about P4 integration, you probably don't want to use > Python's marshal.load to deal with the P4 output either; the marshalling > code has had a tendency to crash Python when it sees malformed or pre- > maturely terminated output). > >> Incidentally, I know that pickle is preferred over marshal, but some >> third-party tools (like the Perforce client) still use the marshal >> library for serialization, so I've included it in the discussion > > Perforce is the only 3rd party component I'm aware of that uses a > standard Python serialization format in this way. > > As the x windows people have observed, the only thing worse than > generalizing from one example is generalizing from no examples at > all..
FWIW, we've been and are using this quite a lot for dumping database content to a backup file. It's a simple and terse format, preserves full data precision and doesn't cause problems when moving between platforms. That makes two use cases and I'm sure there are more ;-) -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Oct 09 2006) >>> Python/Zope Consulting and Support ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC.Zope.Database.Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ ::: Try mxODBC.Zope.DA for Windows,Linux,Solaris,FreeBSD for free ! :::: _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
