pickle format

[Skip Montanaro]

    Anand> Related question. Often I find that when I pickle dictionaries in
    Anand> pickle's binary format, sometimes the read back fails. So I tend
    Anand> to use the text pickle format, though this creates larger pickled
    Anand> files.

    Anand> Is there a bug with the binary pickle format?

If it's reproducible and you're not making a mistake, yes, please report it.
If you're on Windows (or Mac OS 9?) and fail to open the pickle file in
binary mode your binary pickle files will eventually get hosed though.

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