pickle, marshal, ?

[Erik Max Francis]

Max Khesin wrote:

> pickle is introduced as very fast but version dependent can for simple
> data
> structures only. marshal is relatively slow but version-independent
> and
> supports complex data structures. I am looking for something that is
> version-independent but trades off data structure complexity for speed
> - it
> only needs to do lists, dictionaris & strings.

Sounds like you have these reversed.  pickle is the one that's
version-independent; marshal is the one that's explicitly documented as
"Details of the format are undocumented on purpose; it may change
between Python versions (although it rarely does)."

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