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Author	pitrou
Recipients	alexandre.vassalotti, amaury.forgeotdarc, barry, benjamin.peterson, nnorwitz, pitrou, tim.peters
Date	2008-09-13.10:59:08
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Message-id	<1221303546.5613.1.camel@fsol>
In-reply-to	<1221279287.54.0.322756532803.issue3657@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>

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> I expect this is why nobody has ever complained about it: unless you're > looking at the strings embedded in the pickle GLOBAL opcode, it's > unlikely to have a visible consequence. Well, it may have a consequence if pickle picks the "random" function from a third-party module named "foobar", and you give the pickle to a friend and expect it to work for him while he hasn't installed module "foobar".

> I expect this is why nobody has ever complained about it:  unless you're
> looking at the strings embedded in the pickle GLOBAL opcode, it's
> unlikely to have a visible consequence.

Well, it may have a consequence if pickle picks the "random" function
from a third-party module named "foobar", and you give the pickle to a
friend and expect it to work for him while he hasn't installed module
"foobar".

History
Date	User	Action	Args
2008-09-13 10:59:10	pitrou	set	recipients: + pitrou, tim.peters, barry, nnorwitz, amaury.forgeotdarc, alexandre.vassalotti, benjamin.peterson
2008-09-13 10:59:09	pitrou	link	issue3657 messages
2008-09-13 10:59:08	pitrou	create