On Sat, 18 Sep 2004 04:20:14 +0000, Chris S. wrote: > Is there any benefit to Pickle over YAML? Given that Pickle is insecure, > wouldn't it make more sense to support a secure serialization format, > one that's even readable to boot, such as YAML? Anything that can "pickle" will be insecure. It is the capabilities of pickling, not the implementation, that is insecure.