[Python-Dev] The memo of pickle

Tim Peters tim_one@email.msn.com
Tue, 6 Aug 2002 23:32:26 -0400


[Greg Ewing]
> Do you need the list at all? Won't the object be kept
> alive by the fact that it's a key in the dictionary?

The object's id() (address) is the key.  Else only hashable objects could be
pickled.