Python pickles aren't really a good long-term storage format; A much safer bet would be to serialize/deserialize to json, say. I don't know how feasible that woud be in your case though.
On Friday, April 30, 2021 at 10:18:01 AM UTC+2 Kwankyu Lee wrote: > Hi all, > > The ticket > > https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/27957 > > adds algebraic geometry error correcting codes (also called geometric > Goppa codes) and their decoders to Sage. Once merged, this will be another > edge where Sage is superior to Magma. > > Travis and I are working on the ticket, and we encountered an issue on > doctesting the code. It takes a "long" time (about 4 seconds) to construct > a decoder (a smallest nontrivial example). Thus it takes much time for > doctesting all code (about 60 doctests) as each doctest has to construct a > decoder before testing a method. So to save time, we decided to save the > decoder as an sobj object, and to load the object before each test. There > are 8 saved objects in .../coding/tests subdirectory for this purpose. > > Now we worry if there is a security breach in this way of doctesting. We > did not find other example doing the same in the Sage lib. What do you > think? If there is a real threat in security, then we would revert to the > established way of adding "# long time" to the doctests. Thank you for > attention. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/dc307a69-565b-40f4-ac70-2fafcfc0261an%40googlegroups.com.
