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[Georg Brandl]

Guido van Rossum schrieb:
> Whoa, I object. This seems to be rolling back functionality that was
> pretty stable for several alphas, and (if I may believe the docstring
> change) you're even dropping protocol 3. Isn't there a more elegant
> way? This seems way too drastic a change so close to the beta release.

No, this is only a rollback of r64152 and further fixes after that.

That the docstring doesn't mention protocol 3 any more is because it
didn't do so until that point -- Alexandre's patch to add a C pickle
speedup also fixed quite a few things in pickle.py.

Georg