What are you using pickle for? If this is just for yourself, go for it. If you're planning on interchanging with different languages/platforms/etc., JSON or XML might be better. If you're after something that is smaller and faster, maybe MessagePack or Google Protocol Buffers. If you're after something that can hold a planet's worth of data, maybe HDF5. It really depends on your use-case.
MessagePack - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MessagePack Google Protocol Buffers - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protocol_Buffers HDF5 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hierarchical_Data_Format Thanks, Cem Karan On May 8, 2015, at 5:58 AM, Cecil Westerhof <ce...@decebal.nl> wrote: > I first used marshal in my filebasedMessages module. Then I read that > you should not use it, because it changes per Python version and it > was better to use pickle. So I did that and now I find: > https://wiki.python.org/moin/Pickle > > Is it really that bad and should I change again? > > -- > Cecil Westerhof > Senior Software Engineer > LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cecilwesterhof > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
