Does shelve use cPickle or Pickle?

Adrian B. · Feb 7, 2004

Newbie question; does shelve use cPickle or Pickle? Can it be specified?

thanks

Gerrit · Feb 7, 2004

Adrian said:
Newbie question; does shelve use cPickle or Pickle? Can it be specified?

cPickle if available, otherwise Pickle.
I think you would have to set shelve.{Pickler,Unpickler} to override
this.

Gerrit.

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