I have seen conflicting info on this on the web and in the tutor archive and
the docs don't seem to address it explicitly. How portable are files containing
pickle'd and shelve'd data? I'm thinking issues like simply O/S portability,
through big-end/little-end hardware (for floats/integers which I use a lot),
and then for unicode/non-unicode string, 64/32 bit and V2.6/V3.1
implementations of python. Does the version of the encoder in pickle make any
difference for this? One post I've seen suggests that as long as the file is
opened binary (ie. 'b') all should be well for platform independence.
My core question if I give a pickled file to somebody else can i guarantee they
can read/load it OK. The other person will be using exactly the same python
code to open it as used to create it.
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