Cloning threading.py using proccesses

Fredrik Lundh wrote:

> marshal hasn't changed in many years:

Maybe not, but I was given to understand that it's
regarded as a private format that's not guaranteed
to remain constant across versions. So even if
it happens not to change, it wouldn't be wise to
rely on that.

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Greg
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Greg Ewing wrote:

> Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> 
>> marshal hasn't changed in many years:
> 
> Maybe not, but I was given to understand that it's
> regarded as a private format that's not guaranteed
> to remain constant across versions. So even if
> it happens not to change, it wouldn't be wise to
> rely on that.

but given that the format *has* been stable for many years,
surely it 
would make more sense to just codify that fact, rather than
developing 
Yet Another Serialization Format instead?

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