Glenn Linderman wrote:
Quotes in the stream are a great debug hint, without blowing up.
But do you really want those quotes turning up in a *binary* stream, where they're somewhere between awkward and near-impossible to spot by eyeballing, and may only be discovered when something else -- likely a different program, possibly being run by a different person -- tries to read the data back, and blows up because the binary format is corrupted? I'd much rather it blew up at the writing stage, myself. Corrupted binary data is *much* harder to debug than corrupted text, because binary formats typically have little to no margin for error before they become complete garbage. -- Greg _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
