> No reason AFAIK. However, the fact that it is self-delimited is implicit
> in the fact that "Bytes past the pickled object's representation are
> ignored": https://docs.python.org/dev/library/pickle.html#pickle.load
I find this sentence worrying: it could lead one to think that load() could
read
On Tue, 1 Apr 2014 19:29:38 +0100
Charles-François Natali wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Unless I'm mistaken, pickle's documentation doesn't mention that the pickle
> wire-format is self-delimiting. Is there any reason why it's not documented?
No reason AFAIK. However, the fact that it is self-delimited is im
Hi,
Unless I'm mistaken, pickle's documentation doesn't mention that the pickle
wire-format is self-delimiting. Is there any reason why it's not documented?
The reason I'm asking is because I've seen some code out there doing its
own ad-hoc length-prefix framing.
Cheers,
cf
