On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 10:15 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net>wrote:
Alexandre Vassalotti (thanks a lot!) has recently finalized his work on the PEP 3154 implementation - pickle protocol 4.
I think it would be good to get the PEP and the implementation accepted for 3.4. As far as I can say, this has been a low-controvery proposal, and it brings fairly obvious improvements to the table (which table?). I still need some kind of BDFL or BDFL delegate to do that, though -- unless I am allowed to mark my own PEP accepted :-)
(I've asked Tim, specifically, for comments, since he contributed a lot to previous versions of the pickle protocol.)
The PEP is at http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3154/ (should be rebuilt soon by the server, I'd say)
Alexandre's implementation is tracked at http://bugs.python.org/issue17810
Assuming Tim doesn't object (hi Tim!) I think this PEP is fine to accept -- all the ideas sound good, and I agree with moving to support 8-byte sizes and framing. I haven't looked at the implementation but I trust you as a reviewer and the beta release process. -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)