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| author | Mark Dickinson <mdickinson@enthought.com> | 2020-01-24 10:03:22 (GMT) |
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| committer | Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> | 2020-01-24 10:03:22 (GMT) |
| commit | e9652e8d58392f5022759ba06b444ce970eb12db (patch) | |
| tree | 9332982a642492599d8f61d2248950f261f73858 /Lib/pickle.py | |
| parent | b9783d2e035d2babe8fcd9ec109044c0002c18a2 (diff) | |
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bpo-39426: Fix outdated default and highest protocols in docs (GH-18154)
Some portions of the pickle documentation hadn't been updated for the pickle protocol changes in Python 3.8 (new protocol 5, default protocol 4). This PR fixes those docs.
https://bugs.python.org/issue39426
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diff --git a/Lib/pickle.py b/Lib/pickle.py index 01d4142..d7adc16 100644 --- a/Lib/pickle.py +++ b/Lib/pickle.py @@ -409,9 +409,9 @@ class _Pickler: """This takes a binary file for writing a pickle data stream. The optional *protocol* argument tells the pickler to use the - given protocol; supported protocols are 0, 1, 2, 3 and 4. The - default protocol is 4. It was introduced in Python 3.4, it is - incompatible with previous versions. + given protocol; supported protocols are 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5. + The default protocol is 4. It was introduced in Python 3.4, and + is incompatible with previous versions. Specifying a negative protocol version selects the highest protocol version supported. The higher the protocol used, the |