Gregory (Grisha) Trubetskoy
grisha at modpython.org
Fri Nov 7 16:58:12 EST 2003
On Fri, 7 Nov 2003, Michael S. Fischer wrote: > Gregory (Grisha) Trubetskoy wrote: > > > Second, there is a distinction between "marshalling" and "pickling", which > > is what SerialCookie uses. The process of unmarshalling does not execute > > arbitrary code. > > What's your evaluation of the possibility that the marshaling method > will change between Python versions? The docs explicitly offer no > guarantee that the format will remain stable. Well - marshalling is used to create .pyc files, and the format does include a version number I believe. It's very unlikely that the format will change with no backwards compatibility. In other words I don't see this as a concern when using MarshalCookie. Grisha
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