pickle vs cPickle: error is not raised at unpickle / windows vs linux (!) (repost)

[Irmen de Jong]

Irmen de Jong wrote:

> I'm experiencing  a problem with pickle vs cPickle.
[...]
> - python 2.2.2 *and* 2.3b under linux tell me everything is fine

Scratch that. I did something wrong, Python2.2.2 and 2.3b on
Linux act the same as on Windows.

Still, my first question remains:

> 1) with the unmodified code, why doesn't cPickle raise an error when the 
> unpickling gets in an endless loop ?

--Irmen