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From: Etienne Robillard <animelo...@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: serialization and versioning
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On Fri, 12 Oct 2012 06:42:03 -0400
Neal Becker <ndbeck...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I wonder if there is a recommended approach to handle this issue.
> 
> Suppose objects of a class C are serialized using python standard pickling.  
> Later, suppose class C is changed, perhaps by adding a data member and a new 
> constructor argument.
> 
> It would see the pickling protocol does not directly provide for this - but is 
> there a recommended method?
> 
> I could imagine that a class could include a class __version__ property that 
> might be useful - although I would further expect that it would not have been 
> defined in the original version of class C (but only as an afterthought when it 
> became necessary).
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i guess a easy answer is to say to try python 3.3 but how would this translate in
python (2) code ?