> 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
I find this sentence worrying: it could lead one to think that load() could read more bytes than the expected object representation size: this would make pickle actually non self-delimiting, and could lead to problems when reading e.g. from a socket, since an extraneous read() could block. I think it's worth making it clear in the doc, I'll open an issue on the tracker.
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