> Hm. This would change the pickling format though. Wouldn't just > interning (short) strings on unpickling be simpler?
Sure - that's what Jake had proposed. However, it is always difficult to select which strings to intern - his heuristics (IIUC) is to intern all strings that appear as dictionary keys. Whether this is good enough, I don't know. In particular, it might intern very large strings that aren't identifiers at all. Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ 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
