On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 09:06:18 -0600, John Bokma wrote: > Based on the magic numbers I've seen so far it looks like that not an > option. They increment with every minor change.
They increment with every *incompatible* change to the marshal format, not every change to the compiler. > So to me, at this moment > (and maybe it's my ignorance) it looks like a made up example to justify > what to me still looks like a bad decision. Of course it's a made-up example. But with Python now entering a period where there is a moratorium on changes to the language, is it really so difficult to imagine that the marshal format will settle down for a while even as the standard library goes through upgrades? -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
