Summer of Code Weekly #4

July 6, 2007 · Filed under News, Python

All is well for me and my project. I finished the merge of cStringIO and StringIO, and I am now moving to the more challenging cPickle/pickle merge. During the last two weeks, I mostly spend my time analyzing the pickle module and thinking how I will clean up cPickle. My current plan is:

  1. Make cPickle’s source code conform to PEP-7.
  2. Remove the dependency on the now obsolete cStringIO.
  3. Benchmark cPickle and pickle.
  4. Add subclassing support to Pickler/Unpickler.
  5. Reduce the size of cPickle’s source code based on the bottlenecks found by the benchmarks.

Hopefully, cPickle/pickle merge will be as smooth (and as fun) as the cStringIO/StringIO merge.

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