[ZODB-Dev] Problem Storing Infinity

[Jim Fulton]

On Sep 12, 2006, at 3:07 PM, Tim Peters wrote:

> [David Binger]
>>>> That's interesting.
>>>> It appears that pickle protocol 2 chokes on inf.
>
> [Tim Peters]
>>> As above.  BTW, why protocol 2 specifically?  Protocols 1 and 2  
>>> treat
>>> floats the same way.
>
> [David]
>> I was thinking that the default protocol is 1, but I see
>> now that the default is 0.
>
> Strange, eh?  Since only protocol 0 existed at first, I suppose this
> was a nod to backward compatibility.

Plus version 0 pickles are more readable. :)  Honestly.

(Some time I really need to promote xmlpickle more. It's very nice  
for looking at pickles. Unfortunately, it doesn't understand protocol  
2 yet.)

Jim

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