pickle vs cPickle: error is not raised at unpickle / windows vs linux (!) (repost)

[Tim Peters]

[Irmen de Jong]
> windows vs linux (!) (repost)
>
>
> Irmen de Jong wrote:
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>> I'm experiencing  a problem with pickle vs cPickle. [...]
>> - python 2.2.2 *and* 2.3b under linux tell me everything is fine
>
> Scratch that. I did something wrong, Python2.2.2 and 2.3b on
> Linux act the same as on Windows.
>
> Still, my first question remains:
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>> 1) with the unmodified code, why doesn't cPickle raise an error when
>> the unpickling gets in an endless loop ?

This is why bug reports don't belong on comp.lang.python:  the context is
lost, and I don't have time to go searching for it.  When you don't get a
reply to a repeated question about dubious behavior, it's probably because
nobody reading c.l.py knows the answer.  In this case, there are maybe two
people on Earth who understand all the pickle changes going into 2.3, and
Guido (the one who knows best) rarely has time to read c.l.py anymore.

So, if you think this is an important question, please gather all the pieces
and open a single coherent bug report on SourceForge.  Or, if it's an idle
question, feel encouraged to keep replying to yourself about it on c.l.py
<wink>.