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[Python-Dev] For review: PEP 307

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On 07 February 2003, Guido van Rossum said:
> I'm assuming a fair number of people have been following this already
> in the checkins list; I think it's ready for review on python-dev:
> 
>   http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0307.html

Haven't read the whole thing, but this:

> Several functions, methods and constructors used for pickling used
> to take a positional argument named 'bin' which was a flag,
> defaulting to 0, indicating binary mode.  This argument is renamed
> to 'proto' and now gives the protocol number, still defaulting to 0.

gave me pause: 'protocol' would be much clearer, and only costs three
more characters.

        Greg
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