> Just set a size limit, e.g. 30 or 100. It's just a heuristic. I > believe somewhere in Python itself I intern string literals if they > are reasonably short and fit the pattern of an identifier; I'd worry > that the pattern matching would slow down unpickling more than the > expected benefit though, so perhaps just a size test would be better.
Ok. So, Jake, it's back to my original request - please submit this to the tracker (preferably along with test cases). 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
