Marc-Andre Lemburg <m...@egenix.com> added the comment: Terry J. Reedy wrote: > > Terry J. Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> added the comment: > > This can no longer be a 2.5 issue but I am not sure how to update it. > > OP apparently opened it as a feature request, so I did update it to 3.2. > > But OP then says "I'm not sure if this is a functionality or documentation > bug." and indeed subsequent messages debate this issue. This would mean it > could apply to earlier versions, if re-typed. > > On the other hand, there seems to be some opinion that there is no bug, or if > there is/was, it cannot be fixed, which would mean this should be closed. > > Also, the docs seem to have already been changed, so if that were the issue, > this is fixed and should be closed: > "By default, the pickle data format uses a printable ASCII representation." > is now > "Protocol version 0 is the original human-readable protocol and is backwards > compatible with earlier versions of Python. "
I'd suggest to close the ticket. The main idea behind version 0 was to have a readable format. The occasional UTF-8 in the stream should be readable enough nowadays, even if it's not ASCII. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue2980> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
