| Hmmm, just checking the manual of marshal, looks like a Python wrapper with some restriction: - Details of the format are undocumented on purpose; it may change between Python versions (although it rarely does) - This is not a general ``persistence'' module. ->... For persistence use the pickle module (which is slow!) - The marshal module exists mainly to support reading and writing the ``pseudo-compiled'' code for Python modules of .pyc files. Found on: Based on that I would consider twice if you want to use such a module, without saying its bad! But for the planned purpose (reading map) I dont see the advantage using the marshal module. What I forgot to say is the fact that dictionaries (keys) are indexed (hash) what makes them really fast on reading out values. This is surely needed accessing a map many times. Just 2 other cents Farai Am 19.12.2006 um 02:54 schrieb Greg Ewing:
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