The problem with the marshal module is that the underlying format is subject to change without notice. This can make it useful for passing objects around as strings between Python instances on the same machine, but not very useful for any kind of long-term storage. Mostly it's designed to generate pyc files.
Interesting. Fortunately my program doesn't need to do long term storage. I also don't need to open the serialized file from any other perspective other than debugging.
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The problem with the marshal module is that the underlying format is subject to change without notice. This can make it useful for passing objects around as strings between Python instances on the same machine, but not very useful for any kind of long-term storage. Mostly it's designed to generate pyc files.
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Interesting.
Fortunately my program doesn't need to do long term storage. I also don't need to open the serialized file from any other perspective other than debugging.