On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 8:08 AM, Guido van Rossum <[email protected]> wrote: > If you can solve your problem with a suitably hacked Unpickler > subclass that's fine with me, but I would personally use this > opportunity to change the app to some other serialization format that > is perhaps less general but more robust than pickle. I've been bitten > by too many pickle-related problems to recommend pickle to anyone...
It's fine for in-memory storage of (almost) arbitrary objects (I use it to stash things in a memory backed sqlite DB via SQLAlchemy) and for IPC, but yeah, for long-term cross-version persistent storage, I'd be looking to something like JSON rather than pickle. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | [email protected] | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
