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diff --git a/Doc/library/marshal.rst b/Doc/library/marshal.rst index 7e1daf3..3b9e3d2 100644 --- a/Doc/library/marshal.rst +++ b/Doc/library/marshal.rst @@ -36,12 +36,14 @@ supports a substantially wider range of objects than marshal. Not all Python object types are supported; in general, only objects whose value is independent from a particular invocation of Python can be written and read by -this module. The following types are supported: ``None``, integers, -floating point numbers, strings, bytes, bytearrays, tuples, lists, sets, -dictionaries, and code objects, where it should be understood that tuples, lists -and dictionaries are only supported as long as the values contained therein are -themselves supported; and recursive lists and dictionaries should not be written -(they will cause infinite loops). +this module. The following types are supported: booleans, integers, floating +point numbers, complex numbers, strings, bytes, bytearrays, tuples, lists, sets, +frozensets, dictionaries, and code objects, where it should be understood that +tuples, lists, sets, frozensets and dictionaries are only supported as long as +the values contained therein are themselves supported; and recursive lists, sets +and dictionaries should not be written (they will cause infinite loops). The +singletons :const:`None`, :const:`Ellipsis` and :exc:`StopIteration` can also be +marshalled and unmarshalled. There are functions that read/write files as well as functions operating on strings. |