[Python-Dev] undesireable unpickle behavior, proposed fix

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Tue Jan 27 21:07:53 CET 2009


> Just set a size limit, e.g. 30 or 100. It's just a heuristic. I
> believe somewhere in Python itself I intern string literals if they
> are reasonably short and fit the pattern of an identifier; I'd worry
> that the pattern matching would slow down unpickling more than the
> expected benefit though, so perhaps just a size test would be better.

Ok. So, Jake, it's back to my original request - please submit this
to the tracker (preferably along with test cases).

Regards,
Martin



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