[me]
> I have an application (Grouch) that has to do a lot of trickery at
> pickle-time and unpickle-time, and as a result it happens to be
> sensitive to the order of unpickling.
[...]
> Anyone got a vague, hand-waving explanation for my vague, hand-waving
> complaint? Or should I try to come up with a test case?
>
[Guido]
> Yes please, and post it to SourceForge. There aren't that many
> changes in the source of pickle.py since release 2.1. (Or are you
> using cPickle? If so, please say so. The two aren't 100%
> equivalent.)
False alarm. It appears that a change in dictionary order bit me; I was
lucky that pickling Grouch objects ever worked at all.
Lesson: when the code to support pickling is too complex too understand,
it's too complex. Hmmm, that might have broader application. ;-)
Greg
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