taw> When pickling an object, is the expected behavior that it be taw> pickled identically each and every time? In general, no, you can't rely on this. Dictionaries, in particular, might have their key/value pairs serialized in different orders from one time to the next. -- Skip Montanaro (skip at pobox.com) http://www.mojam.com/ http://www.musi-cal.com/