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diff --git a/Doc/library/pickle.rst b/Doc/library/pickle.rst index d0c4cf9..ea854fa 100644 --- a/Doc/library/pickle.rst +++ b/Doc/library/pickle.rst @@ -135,14 +135,14 @@ to read the pickle produced. information about improvements brought by protocol 2. * Protocol version 3 was added in Python 3.0. It has explicit support for - :class:`bytes` objects and cannot be unpickled by Python 2.x. This is - the default protocol, and the recommended protocol when compatibility with - other Python 3 versions is required. + :class:`bytes` objects and cannot be unpickled by Python 2.x. This was + the default protocol in Python 3.0--3.7. * Protocol version 4 was added in Python 3.4. It adds support for very large objects, pickling more kinds of objects, and some data format - optimizations. Refer to :pep:`3154` for information about improvements - brought by protocol 4. + optimizations. It is the default protocol starting with Python 3.8. + Refer to :pep:`3154` for information about improvements brought by + protocol 4. .. note:: Serialization is a more primitive notion than persistence; although @@ -179,8 +179,16 @@ The :mod:`pickle` module provides the following constants: An integer, the default :ref:`protocol version <pickle-protocols>` used for pickling. May be less than :data:`HIGHEST_PROTOCOL`. Currently the - default protocol is 3, a new protocol designed for Python 3. + default protocol is 4, first introduced in Python 3.4 and incompatible + with previous versions. + .. versionchanged:: 3.0 + + The default protocol is 3. + + .. versionchanged:: 3.8 + + The default protocol is 4. The :mod:`pickle` module provides the following functions to make the pickling process more convenient: |