[ python-Bugs-616013 ] cPickle documentation incomplete

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Bugs item #616013, was opened at 2002-09-28 21:21
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Category: Documentation
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Guido van Rossum (gvanrossum)
>Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: cPickle documentation incomplete

Initial Comment:
Many of the differences between the cPickle module and
the pickle module appear undocumented, despite a claim
in the cPickle module that the pickle docs explain the
differences.

For example, I just found that cPickle.Pickler() can be
called without a file argument, which makes it use an
internal list to store the pickled data; and that in
that case it has a method getvalue() that returns the
contents of that list as a string; and that its dump()
method takes a second argument which, if true, calls
the getvalue() method.  Who knows what else it supports.

Someone should go over the cPickle source and compare
the API *carefully* with the documented pickle API.

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>Comment By: Fred L. Drake, Jr. (fdrake)
Date: 2006-05-02 22:14

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Unassigning myself; clearly, I've not had time for this.

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