Estimating memory use?

[François Pinard]

[Fredrik Lundh]

> the internal RE byte code format is version dependent, so pickle 
> stores the patterns instead.

Oh!  Nice to know.  That explains why, when I was learning Python, my 
initial experiment with pickles left me with the (probably wrong) 
feeling that they were not worth the trouble.

It might be worth a note in the documentation, somewhere appropriate.

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François Pinard   http://pinard.progiciels-bpi.ca