On 13 March 2012 22:13, Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> wrote: > Well, since trying to migrate data between versions using pickle is > the "wrong" thing anyway, I think the status quo is just fine. > Developers doing the "right" thing don't use pickle for this purpose.
I'm confused by this. "The pickle serialization format is guaranteed to be backwards compatible across Python releases" [1], which - at least to me - suggests it's fine to use pickle for long-term storage, and that reading this data in new Python versions is not a "bad" thing to do. Am I missing something here? [1] http://docs.python.org/library/pickle.html#the-pickle-protocol _______________________________________________ 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
