RE: [Python-Dev] The memo of pickle

[Greg Ewing]

That would break a lot of programs that use pickle without opening the file in binary mode.

[Guido]

Really? That's unfortunate.

[Greg]

Unfortunate, yes, and true, as far as I can see. It bit me recently -- I decided to change something to use binary pickling, and forgot to change the way I was opening the file.

Greg, do you use Windows? If not, I suspect you're mis-remembering what you did -- "binary mode" versus "text mode" doesn't make any difference on Linux.