Hello list, The following behavior is completely unexpected. Is it a bug or a by- design feature?
Regards, Victor. ----------------- from pickle import dumps from cPickle import dumps as cdumps print dumps('1001799')==dumps(str(1001799)) print cdumps('1001799')==cdumps(str(1001799)) >>>>output:>>>> True False vicbook:~ victor$ python Python 2.5 (r25:51918, Sep 19 2006, 08:49:13) [GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5341)] on darwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> quit() vicbook:~ victor$ uname -a Darwin vicbook 8.9.1 Darwin Kernel Version 8.9.1: Thu Feb 22 20:55:00 PST 2007; root:xnu-792.18.15~1/RELEASE_I386 i386 i386 vicbook:~ victor$ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list