[issue23790] When xdrlib.Packer().pack_string() fails, the Packer is corrupted

[Serhiy Storchaka]

Serhiy Storchaka added the comment:

I doubt that this issue is worth fixing. It is common that when error is happen inside complex operation, the output can be incomplete. When you pickle a list containing non-pickleable data, resulting file content will be not unpickleable. When you write a number of lines in text file, and one of lines contains non-encodable characters, resulting file content will be incomplete and may even don't contain complete lines.

And when other xdrlib.Packer methods that write complex data (pack_uhyper, pack_list, pack_farray, pack_array) fail, they left incomplete output.

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nosy: +serhiy.storchaka

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