[Numpy-discussion] cPickle.loads and Numeric

[Jonathan T. Niehof]

On 02/25/2014 09:41 AM, Alexander Belopolsky wrote:
> That's not true about Python core and stdlib.  Python developers strive
> to maintain backward compatibility and any instance of newer python
> failing to read older pickles would be considered a bug.  This is even
> true across 2.x / 3.x line.

Note that this doesn't extend to forward compatibility--the default 
pickling format in Python 3 isn't readable in Python 2, and for numpy in 
particular, even version 0 pickles of numpy arrays from Python 3 aren't 
readable in Python 2.

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Jonathan Niehof
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