windows to linux pickled objects?

[Fernando Pérez]

Stephen Boulet <stephen at theboulets.net> wrote in message news:<u09p8h73vhth04 at corp.supernews.com>...

> I tried it on linux and the program did run, but the size of the pickled 
> file only went down from 8183905 bytes to 8180057 bytes, and the file 
> wasn't binary at all. Maybe the size difference can be explained by the 
> lack of carriage returns.  ;)
> 
> It would be nice if the binary option worked on linux...
> 

Just to clarify, what I meant was binary *pickle*, not binary file
write. Pickling in binary should decrease file size by quite a bit
(think of it: a float is 8 bytes long, but can take about 16-18
characters to print as text).

Cheers,

f