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| author | Łukasz Langa <lukasz@langa.pl> | 2018-04-04 06:06:53 (GMT) |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2018-04-04 06:06:53 (GMT) |
| commit | c51d8c9ba6211d77db639487501f89aa9b4bcbb1 (patch) | |
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bpo-23403: Bump pickle.DEFAULT_PROTOCOL to 4 (#6355)
This makes performance better and produces shorter pickles. This change is backwards compatible up to the oldest currently supported version of Python (3.4).
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diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-04-02-16-10-12.bpo-23403.KG7ADV.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-04-02-16-10-12.bpo-23403.KG7ADV.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d1fbbeb --- /dev/null +++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-04-02-16-10-12.bpo-23403.KG7ADV.rst @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +``DEFAULT_PROTOCOL`` in :mod:`pickle` was bumped to 4. Protocol 4 is +described in :pep:`3154` and available since Python 3.4. It offers +better performance and smaller size compared to protocol 3 introduced +in Python 3.0. |