[Python-Dev] Iterating over marshal/pickle

[Barry Warsaw]

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On Oct 9, 2006, at 11:28 AM, Fredrik Lundh wrote:

>> 1. Does this seem like a reasonable addition to the standard library?
>
> I cannot remember ever doing this, or seeing anyone except Perforce
> doing this, and it'll only save you a few lines of code every other  
> year
> or so, so my answer is definitely no.

FWIW, Mailman uses pickle files with multiple pickled objects in  
them, to implement its queue files.  We first dump the Message  
object, followed by a dictionary of metadata.  OTOH, I know there's  
only two objects in the pickle, so I don't have to iterate over it; I  
just load the message and then load the dictionary.

- -Barry

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