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Sat Jun 25 17:26:26 EDT 2016 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2016-June/145417.html

On 22.06.16 19:22, André Malo wrote:
> I often concatenate multiple pickles into one file. When reading them, it
> works like this:
>
> try:
>      while True:
>          yield pickle.load(fp)
> except EOFError:
>      pass
>
> In this case the truncation is not really unexpected. Maybe it should
> distinguish between truncated-in-the-middle and truncated-because-empty.
>
> (Same goes for marshal)

This is interesting application, but works only for non-truncated data. 
If the data is truncated, you just lose the last item without a notice.

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