On Apr 11, 2005, at 12:33 AM, Fredrik Lundh wrote:
Tim Peters wrote:[Fredrik Lundh]is changing the marshal format really the right thing to do at this point?
I don't see anything special about "this point" -- it's just sometime between 2.4.1 and 2.5a0. What do you have in mind?
I was under the impression that the marshal format has been stable for quite a long time (people are using it for various RPC protocols, among other things). I might be wrong.
The documentation for marshal explicitly states that you should not use it for such purposes.
There's also a version argument to dumps and dump (though the argument list in the dump documentation doesn't say so), where version 0 is pre-2.4, and version 1 is 2.4+. I don't think it's out of the question to add a version 2 for 2.5+ that uses a better serialization for floats (and it should probably add set/frozenset too since those are builtins now).
-bob
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