[Python-ideas] An official complaint regarding the marshal and pickle documentation

[Leonardo Santagada]

On 06/03/2008, at 17:25, Aahz wrote:

> Maybe so, but my company has been using pickle as a primary long-term
> storage mechanism for more than a decade.  We only rarely have  
> problems
> with code changes causing pickle problems (less than once per year).
> OTOH, we mostly only have a growing internal format -- we almost never
> change the internal format.


And then tons of companies are using ZODB wich uses pickle... so no  
biggie... but using pickle directly can be a problem if you have lots  
of data.

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Leonardo Santagada