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Python 3.x, and you can use it idependently from the rest of the library, to
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read and write Python pickle structures.
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Pickle protocol version support: reading: 0,1,2,3,4; writing: 2.
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Pyrolite can read all pickle protocol versions (0 to 4, so this includes
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the latest additions made in Python 3.4).
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Pickle protocol version support: reading: 0,1,2,3,4,5; writing: 2.
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Pyrolite can read all pickle protocol versions (0 to 5, so this includes
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the latest additions made in Python 3.8 related to out-of-band buffers).
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Pyrolite always writes pickles in protocol version 2. There are no plans on
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including protocol version 1 support. Protocols 3 and 4 contain some nice new
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features which may eventually be utilized, but for now, only version 2 is used.
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features which may eventually be utilized (protocol 5 is quite obscure),
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but for now, only version 2 is used.
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The source archive contains the full source, and also unit test code and a

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