The in-memory fix is really the most important - the disk space was a bonus and an easy metric to gather. 

Unfortunately, our app won't be upgrading to python 3.x.

On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 7:10 AM, Benjamin Peterson <report@bugs.python.org> wrote:

Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org> added the comment:

As you can see, I've implemented a similar solution in 3.3. It should have the same memory savings but not disk space saving. (This would require reintroducing the marshal feature for interned strings.)

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