On Jan 28, 2014, at 09:17 AM, tds...@gmail.com wrote: >yes I know the main usage is to generate pyc files. But marshal is also used >for other stuff and is the fastest built in serialization method. For some >use cases it makes sense to use it instead of pickle or others. And people >use it not only to generate pyc files.
marshall is not guaranteed to be backward compatible between Python versions, so it's generally not a good idea to use it for serialization. -Barry _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
