[Python-checkins] CVS: python/nondist/peps pep-0285.txt,1.18,1.19

[Guido van Rossum]

Update of /cvsroot/python/python/nondist/peps
In directory usw-pr-cvs1:/tmp/cvs-serv24108

Modified Files:
	pep-0285.txt 
Log Message:
Specify that pickle and marshal roundtrip.


Index: pep-0285.txt
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RCS file: /cvsroot/python/python/nondist/peps/pep-0285.txt,v
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--- pep-0285.txt	3 Apr 2002 01:31:29 -0000	1.19
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         also the section "Clarification" below.)
  
+      9) What about pickle and marshal?
+ 
+      => I've added a paragraph to the specification requiring that
+         bool values roundtrip when pickled or marshalled.
+ 
  
  Rationale
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      created.  At the C level, the existing globals Py_False and
      Py_True will be appropriated to refer to False and True.
+ 
+     True and False will properly round-trip through pickling and
+     marshalling; for example pickle.loads(pickle.dumps(True)) will
+     return True.
  
      All built-in operations that are defined to return a Boolean