[Python-3000] Is pickle's persistent_id worth keeping?

[Fred Drake]

On Jan 7, 2008, at 10:29 AM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> Actually I suspect that the people pleading in favor of this are also
> doing it for political reasons.

Perhaps.  The motivating factor is really to be able to decouple  
release cycles, and I think that's a valuable (technical) reason to  
split out packages that aren't essential to make Python a good  
language to work with.


   -Fred

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