A request though.
I am actually looking to implement serialization routines in C++.
An am facing the problem of how to tackle endianess and sizeof issues.
Could you give me a overview of how pickling is done in python ? Reading pickle.py is obviously the option , but its getting daunting as i am not that proficient in python :( .
On 8/25/06, Tim Peters <
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[Chandrashekhar kaushik]
> Can an object pickled and saved on a little-endian machine be unpickled
> on a big-endian machine ?
Yes. The pickle format is platform-independent (native endianness
doesn't matter, and neither do the native sizes of C's various integer
types).
> Does python handle this in some manner , by say having a flag to indicate
> the endianess of the machine on which the object was pickled ? And then
> using this flag to decide how that data will be unpickled ?
Not a flag, no, the pickle format is the same on all platforms. If
you need to know details, read pickle.py.
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