New submission from Serhiy Storchaka: Pickle protocols < 4 allow to pickle bytes and str object with 32-bit size. One of features of protocol 4 was the support of 64-bit sizes.
It is possible to add support of very large bytes and str objects with protocols 2 and 3. The idea is that the long string is splitted on chunks with 32-bit sizes and the resulting string is reconstructed with calling ''.join(). The main part of the feature can be implemented in Python as helpers in copyreg. The question is: is it worthwhile to implement this feature? I already implemented two other features of protocol 4 for protocols 2 and 3: nested objects and __new__ with keyword arguments. ---------- components: Extension Modules, Library (Lib) messages: 252745 nosy: alexandre.vassalotti, pitrou, serhiy.storchaka priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: Add support of pickling very large bytes and str objects with protocol < 4 type: enhancement versions: Python 3.6 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue25370> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
