Q: Pickle compatibility

Erik Max Francis max at alcyone.com
Thu Dec 12 06:05:44 EST 2002


"Ladvánszky Károly" wrote:

> Will later versions of Python pickle-load data pickle-saved with the
> current
> version of Python?

Yep.  pickles are for version-independent serialization.  Obviously you
can't pickle something that involves 2.x features and expect them to
work when unpickled in a 1.5.x environment, but you the get the idea.

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