pickle, marshal, ?

[Max Khesin]

You are absolutely right - I should've used a crossover cable here :). Any
suggestion on a library with my requirements?

thanks,

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"Erik Max Francis" <max at alcyone.com> wrote in message
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> Max Khesin wrote:
>
> > pickle is introduced as very fast but version dependent can for simple
> > data
> > structures only. marshal is relatively slow but version-independent
> > and
> > supports complex data structures. I am looking for something that is
> > version-independent but trades off data structure complexity for speed
> > - it
> > only needs to do lists, dictionaris & strings.
>
> Sounds like you have these reversed.  pickle is the one that's
> version-independent; marshal is the one that's explicitly documented as
> "Details of the format are undocumented on purpose; it may change
> between Python versions (although it rarely does)."
>
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