On Tue, 1 Apr 2014 19:29:38 +0100 Charles-François Natali <cf.nat...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Unless I'm mistaken, pickle's documentation doesn't mention that the pickle > wire-format is self-delimiting. Is there any reason why it's not documented?
No reason AFAIK. However, the fact that it is self-delimited is implicit in the fact that "Bytes past the pickled object’s representation are ignored": https://docs.python.org/dev/library/pickle.html#pickle.load Also, note that protocol 4 now features a length-prefix framing to improve buffering performance with arbitrary streams. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ 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
