[Python-Dev] Re: Re: marshal / unmarshal

[Tim Peters]

[Fredrik Lundh]
> is changing the marshal format really the right thing to do at this
> point?

I don't see anything special about "this point" -- it's just sometime
between 2.4.1 and 2.5a0.  What do you have in mind?

Like pickle formats, I expect a change to marshal would add a new
format code, not take away an older code, so older marshal strings
could still be read.  Etc.