Pickled objects over the network

[Sion Arrowsmith]

Rustom Mody <rustompmody at gmail.com> wrote:
>Since pickle has problems
>-- does not interface well with networking

In what way does pickle not interface well with networking? Other
than, possibly, security issues which you list as a separate problem
with it. I've taken a working XML-RPC system and replaced the XML with
pickle, and had no issues. Other than an order of magnitude
performance gain. (OK, a cow-orker allegedly and unreproducibly found
that cPickle was leaking memory, and as the performance gains weren't
so great with the pure Python implementation, it got shelved and we
stuck with XML-RPC.)

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