[Python-Dev] The memo of pickle
Greg Ewing
greg@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Mon, 12 Aug 2002 11:30:24 +1200 (NZST)
Guido:
> (1) Make binary pickling the default (in cPickle as well as pickle).
That would break a lot of programs that use pickle
without opening the file in binary mode.
> (2) Replace the PyRun_String() call in cPickle with something faster.
> Maybe the algorithm from parsestr() from compile.c can be
> exposed;
I like that idea -- it could be useful for other things,
too. I could use something like that in Pyrex, for example.
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