On 8-5-2015 12:32, Peter Otten wrote: > Cecil Westerhof 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? > > Let's say it the other way around: pickle is fine for short term storage > when the generation of the file is under your control and you only need to > access it from Python.
The latter is not really a restriction, if you want to use it from Java or .NET. https://github.com/irmen/Pyrolite provides an (un)pickler for these platforms. -irmen -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
