On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 6:56 AM, Hrvoje Nikšić <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Are pickle files intended to be readable across different machine > architectures? The documentation states unequivocally that they are > compatible across Python versions, but compatibility across machine > architectures (wrt to differences in size and layout of primitive C > types) is not explicitly addressed.
They're supposed to be compatible across all architectures. > One example where I stumbled upon the incompatibility is the pickling of > arrays. While pickle is normally very careful to write out numbers in a > platform-independent way, arrays are written out in "tostring" format. > This is filed under http://bugs.python.org/issue2389. > > I can work around this issue in my application, but if this is > considered a bug, I'd prefer to fix it in Python instead. It may not be easy to fix this in a backwards-compatible way, but I agree that there's something fishy there. If you can think of a fix, please do submit a patch! -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
