From: Tim Peters <tim.peters@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 16:35:08 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Updated the INST/OBJ docs, to say they really are (almost) identical
X-Git-Tag: v2.3c1~2173
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=2b93c4c70820d0314e8e297c2817d9e03d73df62;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

Updated the INST/OBJ docs, to say they really are (almost) identical
in 2.3.
---

diff --git a/Lib/pickletools.py b/Lib/pickletools.py
index 7eaa1a5d6dae..74ba8d964f92 100644
--- a/Lib/pickletools.py
+++ b/Lib/pickletools.py
@@ -1614,6 +1614,8 @@ opcodes = [
       the class object obtained from INST's arguments is applied to the
       argtuple obtained from the stack, and the resulting instance object
       is pushed on the stack.
+
+      NOTE:  checks for __safe_for_unpickling__ went away in Python 2.3.
       """),
 
     I(name='OBJ',
@@ -1643,6 +1645,10 @@ opcodes = [
       except that no __safe_for_unpickling__ check is done (XXX this is
       a bug; cPickle does test __safe_for_unpickling__).  See INST for
       the gory details.
+
+      NOTE:  In Python 2.3, INST and OBJ are identical except for how they
+      get the class object.  That was always the intent; the implementations
+      had diverged for accidental reasons.
       """),
 
     I(name='NEWOBJ',