marshal doesn't work with "file-like" objects

[Rainer Deyke]

<echuck at mindspring.com> wrote in message news:9546kl$q4$1 at nnrp1.deja.com...
> In article <ku4ryj5zt3.fsf at lasipalatsi.fi>,
>   Erno Kuusela <erno-news at erno.iki.fi> wrote:
> > did you try cPickle's binary mode? it is many times faster than
> > the default text mode at least on my machine.
>
> Yes, my benchmark was cPickle vs. marshal. If you look at the extra
> benefits that pickle offers over marshal (providing custom hooks,
> handling recursive data structures, handling user-defined objects, etc.)
> it's clear that marshal pretty much *has* to be faster, provided that
> both implementations are high quality.

He was refering to binary vs text mode within cPickle, not pickle vs
cPickle.


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