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authorAntoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net>2009-05-02 21:13:23 (GMT)
committerAntoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net>2009-05-02 21:13:23 (GMT)
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Isue #5084: unpickling now interns the attribute names of pickled objects,
saving memory and avoiding growth in size of subsequent pickles. Proposal and original patch by Jake McGuire.
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Library
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+- Issue #5084: unpickling now interns the attribute names of pickled objects,
+ saving memory and avoiding growth in size of subsequent pickles. Proposal
+ and original patch by Jake McGuire.
+
- Issue #3002: ``shutil.copyfile()`` and ``shutil.copytree()`` now raise an
error when a named pipe is encountered, rather than blocking infinitely.