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authorTim Peters <tim.peters@gmail.com>2003-01-28 16:58:41 (GMT)
committerTim Peters <tim.peters@gmail.com>2003-01-28 16:58:41 (GMT)
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save_empty_tuple(): Comment on why we can't get rid of this.
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@@ -515,6 +515,9 @@ class Pickler:
dispatch[TupleType] = save_tuple
+ # save_empty_tuple() isn't used by anything in Python 2.3. However, I
+ # found a Pickler subclass in Zope3 that calls it, so it's not harmless
+ # to remove it.
def save_empty_tuple(self, obj):
self.write(EMPTY_TUPLE)