[Numpy-discussion] numpy pickling problem - python 2 vs. python 3

[Charles R Harris]

On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 10:34 AM, Sebastian <sebix at sebix.at> wrote:

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> Hi all,
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> As this also affects .npy files, which uses pickle internally, why can't
> this be done by Numpy itself? This breaks backwards compatibility in a
> very bad way in my opinion.
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> The company I worked for uses Numpy and consorts a lot and also has many
> data in .npy and pickle files. They currently work with 2.7, but I also
> tried to develop my programs to be compatible with Py 3. But this was
> not possible when it came to the point of dumping and loading npy files.
> I think this will be major reason why people won't take the step forward
> to Py3 and Numpy is not considered to be compatible to Python 3.
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Are you suggesting adding a flag to the files to mark the python version in
which they were created? The *.npy format is versioned, so something could
probably be done with that.

Chuck
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