[Python-Dev] cpython: Issue #15022: Add pickle and comparison support to types.SimpleNamespace.

[Nick Coghlan]

On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 9:49 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
> On Sat, 16 Feb 2013 18:20:14 -0700
> Eric Snow <ericsnowcurrently at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 5:02 PM, Eric Snow <ericsnowcurrently at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 4:45 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
>> >> I think you should test with all pickle protocols.
>> >
>> > I'll do that.
>>
>> Out of curiousity, how critical is it to support protocols 0 and 1?
>> I've made sure SimpleNamespace does, but it made me wonder what the
>> use case is for the older protocols.
>
> Not critical at all. It's just nice to have for consistency, but it
> shouldn't stop you if it's too difficult to implement.

Although in such cases, we probably want to test we generate a
reasonable error message for the unsupported protocols, rather than
silently writing junk to the pickle.

Cheers,
Nick.

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