Re: [Python-Dev] undesireable unpickle behavior, proposed fix

Hm. This would change the pickling format though. Wouldn't just interning (short) strings on unpickling be simpler?

Sure - that's what Jake had proposed. However, it is always difficult to select which strings to intern - his heuristics (IIUC) is to intern all strings that appear as dictionary keys. Whether this is good enough, I don't know. In particular, it might intern very large strings that aren't identifiers at all. Regards, Martin