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[phil hunt]

On Wed, 03 Apr 2002 17:32:52 -0500, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
>
>    True and False will properly round-trip through pickling and
>    marshalling; for example pickle.loads(pickle.dumps(True)) will
>    return True, and so will marshal.loads(marshal.dumps(True)).


Not if they are written and read on machines running different 
versions of Python, they won't.



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