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Author	loewis
Recipients	loewis, mark.dickinson, pitrou, rhettinger, vstinner
Date	2009-01-19.09:02:04
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Message-id	<1232355726.62.0.431127164822.issue4842@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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We should really start maintaining a specification of the pickle format(s). Pickle is designed to be independent of the Python version, although protocol extensions may be added over time. In such a specification, it would say that the format of the L code is "ascii decimal digits, followed by L". The patches look fine to me, please apply. A further change might be that on pickling a long in text mode, the I code could be used if the value is in range(-231,231). However, this is independent of the issue at hand.

We should really start maintaining a specification of the pickle
format(s). Pickle is designed to be independent of the Python version,
although protocol extensions may be added over time. In such a
specification, it would say that the format of the L code is "ascii
decimal digits, followed by L".

The patches look fine to me, please apply.

A further change might be that on pickling a long in text mode, the I
code could be used if the value is in range(-2**31,2**31). However, this
is independent of the issue at hand.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2009-01-19 09:02:06	loewis	set	recipients: + loewis, rhettinger, mark.dickinson, pitrou, vstinner
2009-01-19 09:02:06	loewis	set	messageid: <1232355726.62.0.431127164822.issue4842@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2009-01-19 09:02:05	loewis	link	issue4842 messages
2009-01-19 09:02:04	loewis	create