On Sep 12, 10:59 pm, Duncan Booth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> [snip]
> I believe the claim is that using the full 17 digits ensures the round- > tripping works even if you serialise and deserialise on different > systems, so perhaps we all pay a cost in our interactive sessions for > something which should really be buried deep in IPC code. IPC? Most data transfer between systems in the real world is done using CSV files :-) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list