[Python-checkins] commit of r41822 - python/trunk/Doc/lib/libpickle.tex

[reinhold.birkenfeld]

Author: reinhold.birkenfeld
Date: Tue Dec 27 00:27:49 2005
New Revision: 41822

Modified:
   python/trunk/Doc/lib/libpickle.tex
Log:
Bug #839075: document that highly recursive data cannot be pickled



Modified: python/trunk/Doc/lib/libpickle.tex
==============================================================================
--- python/trunk/Doc/lib/libpickle.tex	(original)
+++ python/trunk/Doc/lib/libpickle.tex	Tue Dec 27 00:27:49 2005
@@ -372,6 +372,10 @@
 Attempts to pickle unpicklable objects will raise the
 \exception{PicklingError} exception; when this happens, an unspecified
 number of bytes may have already been written to the underlying file.
+Trying to pickle a highly recursive data structure may exceed the
+maximum recursion depth, a \exception{RuntimeError} will be raised
+in this case. You can carefully raise this limit with 
+\function{sys.setrecursionlimit()}.
 
 Note that functions (built-in and user-defined) are pickled by ``fully
 qualified'' name reference, not by value.  This means that only the