[Python-bugs-list] [ python-Bugs-640645 ] cPickle.dumps change after for
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Bugs item #640645, was opened at 2002-11-19 06:42
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Category: Python Library
>Group: Not a Bug
>Status: Closed
Resolution: Invalid
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Marco Beri (marcoberi)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: cPickle.dumps change after for
Initial Comment:
try this program:
import cPickle
a=([{}])
print cPickle.dumps(a)
for x in a:
pass
cPickle.dumps(a)
It prints:
(lp1
(da.
Why on earth it does dumps return different string?
And after just a for with a pass in it...
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>Comment By: Tim Peters (tim_one)
Date: 2002-11-19 11:19
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Closed as Not-A-Bug. The internals of pickle strings aren't
guaranteed, just that "they work" when unpickled again, and
these do. If you want a hash code for a dict, don't dare use
pickle for this either, even if it appears "to work": it doesn't.
The order in which dict keys are enumerated isn't defined
either, and can and does vary across releases, and even
across program runs.
So a reliable hash code for a dict needs to be independent of
key iteration order, and no version of pickle spends time
trying to force that issue (waste of time -- it isn't needed for
pickling or unpickling).
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Comment By: Michael Hudson (mwh)
Date: 2002-11-19 09:35
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Well, that's asking for something you're not promised. It
takes some imagination to categorize this as a bug, and I'm
not going to put any of my time into fixing it.
It seems using pickle in place of cPickle *may* work, fwiw.
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Comment By: Marco Beri (marcoberi)
Date: 2002-11-19 08:56
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I would like to use hash(cPickle.dumps(a)) to have a unique
hash also for dict that aren't hashable.
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Comment By: Michael Hudson (mwh)
Date: 2002-11-19 08:03
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OK, I think I know what's happening.
Look at this:
>>> a = {}
>>> cPickle.dumps(a)
'(dp1\n.'
>>> cPickle.dumps({})
'(d.'
the only difference is in the number of references to the
object getting pickled. I don't know why that matters, but
it seems to.
Why does this matter to you?
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Comment By: Michael Hudson (mwh)
Date: 2002-11-19 07:56
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You're right, sorry.
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Comment By: Marco Beri (marcoberi)
Date: 2002-11-19 07:07
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I forgot to print the second dumps but the bug remains:
Before the for:
(lp1
(da.
After the for:
(lp1
(dp2
a.
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Comment By: Michael Hudson (mwh)
Date: 2002-11-19 07:00
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Umm:
>>> a=([{}])
>>> cPickle.dumps(a)
'(lp1\n(da.'
you're only printing the first pickle...
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