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Author	roudkerk
Recipients	Rhamphoryncus, amaury.forgeotdarc, jnoller, roudkerk, theller
Date	2008-06-18.17:37:25
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> But why this is win32 specific? > > Is it because windows cannot fork(), so data has to be copied through > the pickle mechanism? > In this case let's remove the "if win32" statement, and always execute > the body. Yes, on Windows pickling is needed to pass data to a child process. In other contexts these objects are NOT picklable because you would have to worry about garbage collection of the original object before the copy is rebuilt by the other process. On unix pickling will always fail even if it "if win32" statement was removed.

> But why this is win32 specific?
> 
> Is it because windows cannot fork(), so data has to be copied through
> the pickle mechanism?
> In this case let's remove the "if win32" statement, and always execute
> the body.

Yes, on Windows pickling is needed to pass data to a child process.  In
other contexts these objects are NOT picklable because you would have to
worry about garbage collection of the original object before the copy is
rebuilt by the other process.  On unix pickling will always fail even if
it "if win32" statement was removed.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2008-06-18 17:37:38	roudkerk	set	spambayes_score: 0.034724 -> 0.03472402 recipients: + roudkerk, theller, amaury.forgeotdarc, Rhamphoryncus, jnoller
2008-06-18 17:37:38	roudkerk	set	spambayes_score: 0.034724 -> 0.034724 messageid: <[email protected]>
2008-06-18 17:37:34	roudkerk	link	issue3125 messages
2008-06-18 17:37:32	roudkerk	create