Re: [Python-Dev] Pickle format machine independence

2008-04-14 Thread Guido van Rossum
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 6:56 AM, Hrvoje Nikšić <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Are pickle files intended to be readable across different machine > architectures? The documentation states unequivocally that they are > compatible across Python versions, but compatibility across machine > architectur

[Python-Dev] Pickle format machine independence

2008-04-14 Thread Hrvoje Nikšić
Are pickle files intended to be readable across different machine architectures? The documentation states unequivocally that they are compatible across Python versions, but compatibility across machine architectures (wrt to differences in size and layout of primitive C types) is not explicitly add