[Fredrik Lundh] > the internal RE byte code format is version dependent, so pickle > stores the patterns instead.
Oh! Nice to know. That explains why, when I was learning Python, my initial experiment with pickles left me with the (probably wrong) feeling that they were not worth the trouble. It might be worth a note in the documentation, somewhere appropriate. -- François Pinard http://pinard.progiciels-bpi.ca -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list