To me it's interesting that pickle can be thought of as recording some of the implicit assumptions GvR made about the expected use of Python semantics. Formall

To me it's interesting that pickle can be thought of as recording some of the implicit assumptions GvR made about the expected use of Python semantics. Formally serialization/deserialization is very crunchy and precise. (And I remember how stoked I was to find out that Python included an implementation!) In practice, things get messy and we break the implicit assumptions. Is it a flaw of the pickle module? Or are our designs too clever? Patient: "It hurts when I do this." Doctor: "Don't do that." ;-)