[Python-Dev] undesireable unpickle behavior, proposed fix

[Jake McGuire]

On Jan 27, 2009, at 12:39 PM, Martin v. Löwis wrote:
>> I may have misunderstood how unpickling works
>
> Perhaps I have misunderstood your patch. Posting it to Rietveld might
> also be useful.

It is not immediately clear to me how Rietveld works.  But I have  
created an issue on tracker:

http://bugs.python.org/issue5084

Another vaguely related change would be to store string and unicode  
objects in the pickler memo keyed as themselves rather than their  
object ids.  Depending on the data set, you can have many copies of  
the same string, e.g. "application/octet-stream".  This may marginally  
increase memory usage during pickling, depending on the data being  
pickled and the way in which the code was written.

I'm happy to write this up if people are interested...

-jake