Aug. 3, 2004
4:15 p.m.
I want to jump into this debate, but have stayed out of it so far and just don't have time for it. But I can't let this one pass! [Jim Fulton]
... Perhsps the difficulty in pickling an acceptable syntax should be taken as a warning sign that there's a problem with the feature.
There is, in fact, no such difficulty with any of these syntaxes: I've tried pickling all of them, under both pickle.py and cPickle, and they both pickle and unpickle fine. I think this has to do with that they're really all just strings <wink>.