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| author | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2010-10-17 10:24:54 (GMT) |
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| committer | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2010-10-17 10:24:54 (GMT) |
| commit | 0036bcf8d8c7baf3c27c50d9e03e450ff93585db (patch) | |
| tree | 5058ffa9c06214a8cb07732b7213b61430a10f65 /Doc/library/pickle.rst | |
| parent | 047e486c4529b61bfecfeb0bd221cc24a49d0a6e (diff) | |
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#9105: move pickle warning to a bit more prominent location.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/pickle.rst b/Doc/library/pickle.rst index 66d1472..24006e2 100644 --- a/Doc/library/pickle.rst +++ b/Doc/library/pickle.rst @@ -23,6 +23,12 @@ into an object hierarchy. Pickling (and unpickling) is alternatively known as "serialization", "marshalling," [#]_ or "flattening", however, to avoid confusion, the terms used here are "pickling" and "unpickling".. +.. warning:: + + The :mod:`pickle` module is not intended to be secure against erroneous or + maliciously constructed data. Never unpickle data received from an untrusted + or unauthenticated source. + Relationship to other Python modules ------------------------------------ @@ -63,12 +69,6 @@ The :mod:`pickle` module differs from :mod:`marshal` several significant ways: The :mod:`pickle` serialization format is guaranteed to be backwards compatible across Python releases. -.. warning:: - - The :mod:`pickle` module is not intended to be secure against erroneous or - maliciously constructed data. Never unpickle data received from an untrusted - or unauthenticated source. - Note that serialization is a more primitive notion than persistence; although :mod:`pickle` reads and writes file objects, it does not handle the issue of naming persistent objects, nor the (even more complicated) issue of concurrent |