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#9105: move pickle warning to a bit more prominent location.

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Georg Brandl 2010-10-17 10:24:54 +00:00
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@ -23,6 +23,12 @@ into an object hierarchy. Pickling (and unpickling) is alternatively known as
"serialization", "marshalling," [#]_ or "flattening", however, to avoid
confusion, the terms used here are "pickling" and "unpickling"..
.. warning::
The :mod:`pickle` module is not intended to be secure against erroneous or
maliciously constructed data. Never unpickle data received from an untrusted
or unauthenticated source.
Relationship to other Python modules
------------------------------------
@ -63,12 +69,6 @@ The :mod:`pickle` module differs from :mod:`marshal` several significant ways:
The :mod:`pickle` serialization format is guaranteed to be backwards compatible
across Python releases.
.. warning::
The :mod:`pickle` module is not intended to be secure against erroneous or
maliciously constructed data. Never unpickle data received from an untrusted
or unauthenticated source.
Note that serialization is a more primitive notion than persistence; although
:mod:`pickle` reads and writes file objects, it does not handle the issue of
naming persistent objects, nor the (even more complicated) issue of concurrent