Re: [sage-devel] Deprecate and remove/relocate explain_pickle module?

2018-09-21 Thread Erik Bray
On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 3:00 PM Jeroen Demeyer wrote: > > It must be said that I found this tool quite valuable. When unpickling > goes wrong, it is typically not easy to find out why and explain_pickle > does help with that. > > That being said, if nobody wants to maintain it, it has to go (with

Re: [sage-devel] Deprecate and remove/relocate explain_pickle module?

2018-09-21 Thread Jeroen Demeyer
It must be said that I found this tool quite valuable. When unpickling goes wrong, it is typically not easy to find out why and explain_pickle does help with that. That being said, if nobody wants to maintain it, it has to go (with praise, as you said)... -- You received this message

[sage-devel] Deprecate and remove/relocate explain_pickle module?

2018-09-21 Thread Erik Bray
There is a cool module in sage called sage.misc.explain_pickle, which is useful for helping to understand and debug how non-trivial objects in Sage are pickled and unpickled. However, it's a big, fairly complicated module which carries quite a bit of technical debt with it, and relatively little